Twenties Quotations | Page 3

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet.

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.

I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

I played pretty well in my twenties, don't get me wrong! But my consistency is better [in my thirties], my momentum is better, my wins are quicker.

There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper.

One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.

Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before.

Know what? (Wulf) If halflings live past twenty-seven. But then anything is possible. I say in a few months we should pop us some Orville Redenbacher’s, then sit back and enjoy the show. (Spawn)

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.

He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more.

I didn't know the Bible said anything about money. Twenty percent of what Christ talked about was money. You think about it - so does God. Think you need it - God knows it. ... The principles of Jesus Christ create your prosperity.

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

I started going gray in my early twenties.

If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.

George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

I never experienced anything in my natural state that was as shocking as salvia divinorum`s effects. The condensed extract is murder. I'd smoked some plain leaf and experienced a very alien, very physical sensation, like wheels grinding against each other all over my body. Odd, not pleasant, but not overwhelming. Someone sent me some extract, and I took a big lungful, started counting, and before I reached twenty I was suddenly and without preamble in a completely altered state.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

Being a single girl in New York it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality.

I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray." Oh. "You get me the nicest things." "Anybody can get jewelry. Posers

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?

I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.

Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps.

We're in our twenties and we don't know anything and it's awesome.

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.

I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now.

Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.

God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.

You can't be twenty-four hours of just Bush-bashing.

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.