Twenties Quotes

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

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

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.

If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right.

The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that.

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.

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.

Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.

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

I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty-years-old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.

I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.

exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow the seeds for good action maybe in the twenty-second century.

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

Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.

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

I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.

Twenty percent? What am I, your waiter? I got you five vampires, not a BLT.

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

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

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

The lyrics to me are a result of the emotional and creative climate present while making the record as well as personally going through a sort of mid-twenties stock-taking.

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.

... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.

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.

I was talking to my mom one time, like, "Gosh, I'm 30." And she's like, "In your thirties you're even stronger than in your twenties." I didn't believe her, but I have played better in my thirties.

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)

In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it’s a good thing we’re in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn’t it? (Fang)

the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.

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.

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

It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.

A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

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

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.

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