Twenties Quotes

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.

When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

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!

If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.

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

I hate dates. I sit at home all day, and I don't fart once. I go on a date and I've got twenty in the bank straight away.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.

I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

I gained twenty pounds [during pregnancy of my wife].

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

Gold were as good as twenty orators.

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

I was always searching. I became a Buddhist in my twenties when I came to Los Angeles. I met a group of people who I really loved.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.