Twenties Quotations | Page 2

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now, except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.

you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children.

One reason that people in their early twenties aren't really entering real careers is that the companies don't want them yet; they want people who are a little bit more mature, more settled down, ... Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood.

I'm a stone heavier now than in my twenties but I feel more womanly. I'm not in a hurry to lose my curves.

I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.

I think some of them have viewpoints about enjoying your twenties and are living vicariously through me they would probably have me with a different guy every night. They're like: 'Go girl, go'.

L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.

Our survey results are a wake-up call to people in their twenties and thirties: Get going.

I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.

Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

At twenty every one is republican.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

My twenties were about exploring love and being a wildflower and trying to figure everything out. Now I'm not comfortable being that happy wildflower anymore, but I still don't feel like a woman. I wonder when that moment's going to hit.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

I'm always very aware of the physical challenges of work. I train much more than I did when I was in my twenties, and I've done some very physical films, and I always get properly prepared for them and get as fit as I can.

Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.

Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

'Entourage' is a great show, but it's fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn't look anything like that. 'Big Bang' reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws - all of them.

As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.'

I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.

The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts.

I'm not sad that I haven't had any children, because there are a lot in my family. My brother's children in their early twenties are great.

I'm getting older, I wanted to have that opportunity to play someone who goes from his twenties to someone dying of cancer in his sixties.

I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.

In the Twenties and Thirties, refrigerated railcars allowed growers to transport apples over great distances, and, thanks to cold-storage warehouses, wholesalers and retailers could keep them for long periods of time.

In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do.

In my research, I learned that the way these twenties pieces are constructed, in one garment, can be very simple, and in others they can be very complicated. That's what made an elusive fit that we can't always get these days. Knowing this, I would like to share some of these secrets and use them in a collection.

Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten and twenty minute long fragmentary versions. We then uploaded them to an internet archive that fragmented them even more. We treated them like shreds of lost movie spirits and allowed these spirits to interrupt each other in non-consecutive collisions that formed new movies.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends?

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.

I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die. --Natalya Shonski

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.

Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.

It was official. I now wanted to murder a ghost, a notion I'd discarded as unlikely only twenty minutes before. (Cat)

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head.

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million dollars from now. It's right now. And you just have to take a chance.

Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.

The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.

Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

I think twenty-somethings are very cause-oriented.

Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans.

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.