Twenties Quotes

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.

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

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

Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties.

Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you're having them.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

[To lose twenty pounds] is not even about how much I lose and how fast, it's so much about being healthy.

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

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.

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

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.

He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.