Twenties Quotes

I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.

I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.

We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

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.

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

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.

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

I’ve never really socialized, I’ve always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.

Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke.

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

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

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.

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.

America: Twenty million illegal aliens can't be wrong!

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.

We're in our twenties and we don't know anything and it's awesome.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Gold were as good as twenty orators.

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.

Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.

I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much.

She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs.

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million dollars from now. It's right now. And you just have to take a chance.

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult and it turns out to be the most incredible experience.

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.