#twenty

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to. ↗

— Kate Mulgrew

#ageing #always #appeal #been #course

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it. ↗

— Alice Munro

#around #day #else #fitted #had

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#bryan #county #family #fifteen #found

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#cut #down #drown #get #goal

Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#ago #become #brought #candidates #created

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#diameter #directors #hereby #inches #least

One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#because #best #changing #comedy #constantly

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#finding #girlfriend #leaving #like #losing

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty. ↗

— William Odom

#allied #every #germany #had #hundred

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#ambiguity #between #country #hundred #japan