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“We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.”

Years Littles Persons Wanted Bits Born Mines College Mets Majors Twenties Steady Radar Fickle Ruts

Book:Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir

Source: Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir

“When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!”

Source: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters

“It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Enough Wanted Lying Asks Mines Fairs Twenties Asking Twenty One Tell Me The Truth

Book:The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences

Source: The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences

“Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.”

Ifs World Eye Fire Feet Modern Mines Higher Twenties Pairs What If Heritage Fifteen Fence Patches Stalking Rogues Procession Stilts Patch Up

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.”

Way Two Home Kids Found Father Week Minutes Mines Twenties Average Hips Pockets Unbelievable Twenty Two

Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

“I remember a phone call from a friend of mine who lives along the MacKenzie River. She said, "This is the first year in twenty that the chinook salmon have not returned." This woman knows the names of things. This woman is committed to a place. And she sounded the alarm.”

Knows Years Firsts Said Remember Names Mines Rivers Twenties Phones Committed Alarms Phone Calls Salmon

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.”

Years Has Beens Book Mines Window Twenties Shops Shop Windows

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I think Bob [Dylan] told me that he turned down twenty interviews that year, and I was the only one that he sat down and did an interview with. And, he said that it was one of his highlights, and it was one of my highlights. And, I was very glad to talk with Bob. I found out that he was a good fan of mine, and that tickled me.”

Thinking Years Said Found Fans Mines Twenties Down And Glad Sat Interviews Bob Dylan Highlights Turned Down

Author:Ralph Stanley

“I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.”

Real Father Five Nice Mines Ten Twenties Guitar Twenty Five Fourteen Carolina North Carolina Durham

Author:James Taylor

“I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”

Done Teach Teaching Mines Easier Twenties

Author:William Shakespeare

“O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.”

“I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.”

Years Said Felt Steps Saws Streets Mines Husband Married Sitting Twenties Seven Library Hello Justified Exes Seven Years Ex Husband

Book:The Collected Stories

Source: The Collected Stories

“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”

Ifs Knows Men I Can Done Easy Church Poor Teach Teaching Mines Divine Easier Twenties Instruction Palaces Poor Man Cottages Chapel Merchant Of Venice

Author:William Shakespeare

“…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.”

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.”

Source: Black Heart

“A—ris—ta?” Degan asked, sounding horse. “What is it?” “A rat bit me,” she said, once again shocked by her own rasping voice. “Jasper does that if—” Gaunt coughed and hacked. After a moment, he spoke again. “If he thinks you’re dead or too weak to fight.” “Jasper?” “I call him that, but I’ve also named the stones in my cell.” “I only counted mine,” Arista said. “Two hundred and thirty-four,” Degan replied instantly. “I have two hundred and twenty-eight.” “Did you count the cracked ones as two?” “No.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Said Two Moments Fighting Bits Voice Four Mines Hundred Stones Weak Horse Twenties Eight Cells Thirty Spokes Rats Shocked Cracked Hacked

Author:Michael J. Sullivan

“How did the hearing go?” she asked. “We won, sort of,” Kaldar said. “We die at dawn.” “The court gave the Sheeriles twenty-four hours,” William corrected. “Yes, but ‘we die at dawn the day after tomorrow’ doesn’t sound nearly as dramatic.” “Does it have to be dramatic all the time?” Catherine murmured. “Of course. Everyone has a talent. Yours is crocheting and mine is making melodramatic statements.”

Doe Said Dies Courses Sound Hours Four Talent Mines Tomorrow Twenties Court Hearing Statements Dawn Dramatic

Author:Ilona Andrews

“She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.”

Ifs Water Rich Sea Rocks Mines Pure Gold Twenties Sand Pearls Jewels Jewelry Nectar

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare