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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. -- Ambrose Bierce
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. -- Mark Twain
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. -- Jean-Luc Godard
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies. -- Raoul Vaneigem
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. -- John Philip Sousa
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. -- Will Durant
The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop. -- Jeremy Lin
Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day. -- Gil Scott-Heron
Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening. -- Kate Adie
One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels. -- Carmen Electra
How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. -- Alice James
Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation. -- Peter Singer
Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days. -- Tony Campolo
You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well. -- Mehmet Oz
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. -- Will Durant
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship! -- Edward Carpenter
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
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. -- Irving Berlin
The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours. -- Charles Babbage
If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself to your body for at least twenty-four hours. Even then, two weeks worth of commonly prescribed antibiotics will kill the bacterium. -- Michael Specter
It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall that listening is much more invigorating than giving voice to all the thoughts and prejudices that anyway keep me company twenty-four hours a day. -- Pico Iyer
Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school. -- Georg Brandes
I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing. -- Alber Elbaz
If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it. -- Otis Redding
I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists. -- Matt Groening
I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades -- Julia Child
You can't be twenty-four hours of just Bush-bashing. -- Stephanie Miller
Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second. -- Errol Morris
A feature film is twenty-four lies per second. -- Michael Haneke
Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment. -- Mary Kay Ash
No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day. -- Rita Hayworth
Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day. -- Elmore Leonard
Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at. -- Samuel Richardson
I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay. -- Max Beerbohm
It's a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four. -- Jane Lynch
Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours. -- Robert Higgs
This sentence consists of eleven words, twenty-three syllables and seventy-four letters. -- Charles Pearson
Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use. -- Sri Chinmoy
School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day. -- Nikki Giovanni
Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam -- Gayle Forman
Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look. -- Steig Larsson
Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day. -- Mother Teresa
Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me. -- Duke of Wellington
It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day. -- Milton Sapirstein
The Church of God could not live twenty four hours without Rhodes rolls at Thanksgiving. -- Wilford Woodruff
Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. -- Neil Gaiman
I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience. -- Hillary Clinton
The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do. -- Jay Samit
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. -- Zig Ziglar
there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep. -- Madame de Stael
Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it. -- Barbara Ann Kipfer
Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you. -- Mark Cuban
Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness. -- Joel Osteen
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! -- Nhat Hanh
A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe. -- Stephen Hawking
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. -- Markus Zusak
A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest. -- Gayle Forman
It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face. -- David Nicholls
I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours. -- Amanda Smith
In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours. -- Joseph J. Romm
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two. -- Dashiell Hammett
I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four... -- Mindy Kaling
I think of Ariel, my local neighborhood mermaid, how she only had twenty-four hours to turn her life around... -- Shannon Celebi
My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life. -- Kevin J. Anderson
Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours... -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day? -- Daniel Handler
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four. -- Dennis Price
condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette. -- Peter Kreeft
Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record. -- Barry Lyga
I also think that filmmakers understand, we don't have to make twenty movies a year, we make four to six. -- Thomas Tull
Mark McGwire is thirty-four years old. I'm twenty-nine. He's probably a little bit tired and I'm just having some fun. -- Sammy Sosa
Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else. -- Gene Simmons
I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours. -- Mark Twain
If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world. -- Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes. -- Woody Allen
Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather. -- Mark Twain
Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed. -- Camille Paglia
Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door. -- Paul Simon
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. -- Hannes Alfven
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. -- Monica Baldwin
Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing. -- W. W. Rouse Ball
There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five. -- Guy Pearce
there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities. -- Jill Lepore
If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either. -- Daniel Stamm
Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others. -- Sathya Sai Baba
There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day. -- Pema Chodron
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. -- Eldridge Cleaver
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. -- Alice James
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written. -- Anthony Trollope
In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four. -- Thomas Malthus
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I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars. -- Peter Criss
It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love. -- Nhat Hanh
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter. -- Alice Hoffman
He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away. -- Melina Marchetta
One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints. -- John James Audubon
Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs. -- Fran Lebowitz
Twenty-five percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user generated content and thirty-four percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands. -- Erik Qualman
A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years? -- Max Lucado
He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Holly: Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn't there some law that says we get twenty-four? Artemis: I don't think Opal pays much attention to laws. -- Eoin Colfer
Trace started on his way again, this time taking the lead. "She's five-four and weighs less than one-twenty. Matt can handle himself." "Says the man with the black eye. -- Lori Foster
The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks. -- Dizzy Dean
As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening -- John Lennon
He'd been at the Glade for roughly twenty-four hours. One full day. And look at all the things that had happened. All the terrible things. Surely it could only get better. -- James Dashner
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again. -- Agatha Christie
There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names to characters in their novels. False modesty, faugh! -- Max Shulman
Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. -Day -- Marie Lu
Olay BB Cream is a lifesaver, and I wear it every day while I train and compete. Twenty-four-hour hydration and sheer color helps me look flawless even when faced with that unforgiving Jumbotron! -- Lindsey Vonn

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