Mark Twain 20 Years Quotes

#1. If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

Mark Twain

#2. When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.

Mark Twain

#3. I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

Mark Twain

#4. Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

Blake Mycoskie

#5. The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was.

Malcolm Lowry

#6. I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning ...

Benjamin Franklin

#7. Anyone who does not love Him Who made man has not learned to love man aright.

Augustine Of Hippo

#8. I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#9. The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.

Prentice Mulford

#10. Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.

Peter Greenaway