Twenties Quotes

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

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

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.

Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.

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

Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

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

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

Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

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

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

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

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

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

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

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

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.

I can double my density from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly.

If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham).

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

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]

The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

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

This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.

As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.

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

Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.

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.

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

Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.

Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

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.

TV evangelists say they don't favor any particular denomination, but I think we've all seen their eyes light up at tens and twenties.

The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.

[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.