Twenties Quotes

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

There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

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

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

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.

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.

Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.

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

Yes I do like children ... Girl children...about eighteen or twenty.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

Bebop has set music back twenty years.

A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years.

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around.

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

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

To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.

Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.

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

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

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.

The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.