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Quotes About Twenty-four

Don't run this," Farrow asked. "I'm still reporting." "I hear you're almost done," she said. "You're not in the newsroom," Farrow said, annoyed. Her piece would run early the next morning. She'd already called CBS for comment. That gave Farrow less than twenty-four hours.
~ James B. Stewart
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
~ Zig Ziglar
People are carrying around smartphones. They have a video capture device in their pockets twenty-four/seven.
~ Michael Seibel
The term circadian rhythms refers to biological cycles that repeat about every twenty-four hours.
~ Richard Ferber
Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country.
~ Roald Dahl
and he adopted her into his Hunkpapa Sioux tribe, giving her the name "Watanya cicilia," which means "Little Sure Shot." At the time, Annie was only twenty-four years old.
~ Robert A. Carter
For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.
~ Diablo Cody
Reacher said, 'Do you have an accurate headcount?' McQueen said, 'Twenty-four tonight, not including me.' 'Six left, then.' 'Is that all? Jesus.' 'I've been here at least twenty minutes.
~ Lee Child
So that's the story of how I committed statutory rape less than twenty-four hours out of prison--on my birthday no less
~ Joanna Wylde
Today is a precious possession. It's a generous deposit in our life-bank, one that's here for twenty-four hours only.
~ Ruth Myers
But if Adam and Eve (when they were alone in the world) instead of their ordinary night's sleep, had passed the whole twenty-four hours in one continued sleep, the duration of that twenty-four hours had been irrecoverably lost to them, and been for ever left out of their account of time.
~ John Locke
We'd booked twelve weeks of studio time, a fantastic amount of leeway, given that my first record was cut in a total of twenty-four hours and This Year's Model in a mere eleven days. We
~ Elvis Costello
I'm 20 years ahead of social times. What does that tell you? That tells you that when I was four that I was thinking the same as the average human on 24.
~ Riff Raff
Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they're hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours.
~ Steven D. Levitt
This story took no more than perhaps ten minutes to tell, and when it was over - the senseless, needless destruction of twenty-seven years in less than twenty-four hours - one thought foolishly: everyone, everyone should have his day in court.
~ Hannah Arendt
Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.
~ Joshua A. Norton
A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself. We
~ Harper Lee
I make you nervous. Admit it." "I've known you barely twenty-four hours," Rafe retorted. "That isn't enough time to get used to a woman's perfume, let alone the fact that she knows without looking what kind of shorts you happen to be wearing." Isabel chuckled. "Okay, you win that round.
~ Kay Hooper
to their terror when they saw the reality of twenty-four tributes circled together, knowing only one could live? Haymitch and Peeta come in, bid me good
~ Suzanne Collins
Oh, well, I think. There will be twenty-four of us. Odds are someone else will kill him before I do. Of course, the odds have not been very dependable of late.
~ Suzanne Collins
Cold as a bitch's tit." "It's 'witch's.'" "Why? Doesn't matter," Eve said quickly. "Neither way makes sense. If somebody's a witch, why do they put up with cold tits? I'm a bitch, and twenty-four hours ago, my tits were plenty warm.
~ J.D. Robb
Doctor: I have some good news and some bad news. Patient: What's the good news? Doctor: The tests you took showed that you have twenty-four hours to live. Patient:That's the good news? What's the bad news? Doctor: I forgot to call you yesterday.
~ Thomas Cathcart
Very well!' said Doyce. 'Then, if this young lady will do me the honour of regarding me for four-and-twenty hours in the light of a father, and will take a ride with me now towards Saint Paul's Churchyard, I dare say I know what we want to get there.
~ Charles Dickens
The items on the counter in the shop had been pawned by a man who had used an American driving licence as his ID, issued in the state of New Mexico in the name Jack Bauer. He had received 16,430 kronor in total. "Is this some sort of fucking joke?" Jacob asked. "How the hell can someone get away with calling himself Jack Bauer? Jack Bauer! The TV show? Twenty-four?
~ James Patterson