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  • I'm like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live. -- John Fogerty
  • Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah. -- Jennifer Damiano
  • Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. -- Gary Lineker
  • Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio. -- Douglas Kennedy
  • Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
  • The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one. -- Nastassja Kinski
  • Twenty-two million cases of hepatitis B are spread every year because of the reuse of syringes. The WHO says one in two injections given is unsafe. -- Marc Koska
  • The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. -- Alan Patrick Herbert
  • From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything. -- Richard Foreman
  • 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
  • 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
  • When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore. -- Matt Dillon
  • I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame. -- Steven Adler
  • Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. -- Warren Spahn
  • So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. -- William Adams
  • If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine. -- Viggo Mortensen
  • My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr. -- Horton Foote
  • I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. -- Penelope Lively
  • It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. -- Gilbert Parker
  • I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss. -- Barbara Corcoran
  • Here's a twenty, bury two. -- Bear Bryant
  • Almost any age is better than twenty-two. -- David Rakoff
  • Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
  • Two late goals, both in the last twenty minutes... -- Jon Champion
  • At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around. -- Milton Berle
  • Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. -- Malcolm X
  • Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. -- Virginia C. Andrews
  • Twenty-two suicides a day from our veterans. Do you believe that number? Twenty-two a day. -- Donald Trump
  • It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. -- Neil Gaiman
  • It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight -- Howard Raiffa
  • Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform. -- John Barbirolli
  • ... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders. -- Sam Altman
  • Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams. -- Salvador Dali
  • I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism. -- Malcolm X
  • I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime. -- Judy LaMarsh
  • I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed. -- Karen Marie Moning
  • The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two. -- Dashiell Hammett
  • 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
  • Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans. -- Pope Paul VI
  • What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed. -- Albert Camus
  • There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for. -- Karl Kraus
  • 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
  • The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations. -- Malcolm X
  • While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing. -- Natalie Goldberg
  • I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write. -- Don Murray
  • If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double. -- Robert Bork
  • Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it. -- Henny Youngman
  • His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields. -- William Manchester
  • Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed -- Erma Bombeck
  • The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep -- A. P. Herbert
  • It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two. -- Joe Garagiola
  • I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live. -- John Fogerty
  • Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.""because I have the members, I have never felt lonely. -- Yoochun
  • American Taliban John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism and will face twenty years in prison. I guess that means his jihad is on ji-hold. -- Jay Leno
  • Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years. -- Karen Marie Moning
  • I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course. -- Tom Stoppard
  • You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed... -- Lady Randolph Churchill
  • But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two. -- A. A. Milne
  • I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety. -- Malcolm X
  • I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late. -- Rainbow Rowell
  • Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, "The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005 -- Stephen Colbert
  • Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. -- J. B. Priestley
  • TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew - Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told: -- Rudyard Kipling
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