Twenties Quotes

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality.

I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.

I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.

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.

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.

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

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

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

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.

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.

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

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

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

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.

Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

At twenty every one is republican.

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.

Nothing is ever going to describe in words what your mother looked like at twenty when the moonlight just fell on her face in such a way. Only a picture can show you that.

I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.