129 Quotes

#1. You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

Felix Baumgartner

#2. I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

Nikola Tesla

#3. Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but ...
Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129)

Christopher Hitchens

#4. Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects.
-pg 129

Albert Sanchez Pinol

#5. Reaching the top 100 was always my goal since I started to play as a pro. In '05 I came quite close, reaching a ranking of No. 129, but then was stopped by a major shoulder injury.

Marco Chiudinelli

#6. I bowled a 129. It's like- It was like the Special Olympics.

Barack Obama

#7. Under the assumption that it would attract less attention than a BIC language, the conspirators conducted telephone conversations in English--broken English, to be exact, with one tense, no articles, and two pronunciations, both wrong(129).

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. Shakti always said we should have a guy we wanted to keep shaving our legs for. I knew what she meant.
pg. 129

Deb Caletti

#9. I wanted to get free. (129)

Eddie Huang

#10. aphorism 129:

I would have every thought stoop and touch the Earth but that I already know the impossibility of the effort. A thought seems to have a life of its own and would rather leave itself open to flattering interpretations.

Matt Berry

#11. No, no. I have been practicing ... I bowled a 129. It's like
it was like Special Olympics, or something."
making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009

Barack Obama

#12. Who knows the entire truth and who can speak about this creation ? What were the causative factors of this creation ? The gods have originated after the creation. Who knows the one from which this world has got created ? ( 10/129/6 )

Ajay Shukla

#13. My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.

Charles Van Doren

#14. Stick to the key of C, dude. No sharps or flats. More forgiving.

Jeff Zentner

#15. The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

Roberto Bolano

#16. Don't think of yourself as a surrogate mule, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical.

George Saunders

#17. I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

Miranda Hart

#18. The Secret is - there really is no secret. Everything you need lies within yourself.

Vid Lamonte' Buggs Jr.

#19. Ana. I want you to know I'd choose you. If it were up to anyone, if what I wanted counted for anything, I'd have chosen you.

Jodi Meadows

#20. You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Jack Welch

#21. I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Lisa Kleypas

#22. Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex.

Charlaine Harris

#23. I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

Roseanne Barr

#24. It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You wouldn't consider that very admirable would you?

Sylvia Engdahl

#25. Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

Mark Twain

#26. Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

Eoin Colfer