“It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.” WritingDrawsTwentiesStoresComicPostsBeachMailBucksTemptingReddit Author:Randall Munroe
“everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.” WantWritingTryingHumansLongHappensHumanityHoursFourCommunicationDrawsGardenLettersTwentiesDressesExpress Yourself Book:If You Want to Write Source: If You Want to Write
“I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.” IfsYearsTwoPastUsedDrawsGainsWeightTwentiesConclusionUsed To BeCutePoundsTwo YearsMathematicianOver The PastStunningDiagramsReally Cute Author:Zach Galifianakis
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.” KnowsFirstsHas BeensMadeStillsSeemsNextDecisionVisionOur LivesShapesDrawsHundredTwentiesDecadesCardsDeckIndecisionRevision Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel
“I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.” MadeStoriesPastRealizingMistakePathDrawsMy FriendsTwentiesGladHorribleRocketsSetbackMy PastTrajectoryHorrible Things Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.” WayKidsProgressDrawsOkayTwentiesDrawingGradesIllustrationSixth Grade Author:Demetri Martin
“The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window.” ThinkingWayChildrenHomeHandsFacesLostVoiceStruggleArmsHorrorDrawsWindowLet MeTwentiesIntenseMy WayNightmareSpokesMelancholyComing HomeMoorsLinton Book:Wuthering Heights Source: Wuthering Heights
“If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance.” IfsGivingShouldMayDoeEnoughFactsSeemsScienceLinesLevelsResultsFailingLowsDrawsStandardsHundredTwentiesExperimentsFiftySignificanceStatisticsCentsOddsScientific Facts Author:Ronald Fisher