Twenties Quotations

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life

There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.

I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know what's around the corner.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.

I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

I've never really socialized; I've always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player.

The Yankees have twenty-five heroes.

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.