Twenties Quotes

So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.

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

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

After twenty plus years of performing hundreds of shows a year, I prefer to try things out on stage rather than for friends. I don't see the benefit in that, really.

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

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

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

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

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

I also think that filmmakers understand, we don't have to make twenty movies a year, we make four to six.

Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

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

I'm just as normal as anybody else. I'm just probably in the same place as many people in their mid to late twenties are.

Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

For me, that was a hard scene [in "Fences"] to do twenty-something times, which (laughing), I counted. That was difficult, but once I did it, I felt like I could do anything.

The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents.

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.

When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?

Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.

When you are in your twenties, if even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become.

When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become.

Nobody knows anything when they are in their midtwenties.