Twenties Quotes

Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment.

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

I started going gray in my early twenties.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

Saying "I'll start managing my money as soon as I get caught up" is like an overweight person saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as soon as I lose twenty pounds."

New York is a fun town to go out in. During my twenties and into my thirties I had a good time partying, yes. But nothing where I woke up and I thought that I had a problem.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.

The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent.

I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at my weakest, with my bed a mere twenty feet away.

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player.

When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.

He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep—I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.

And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.

Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

If I had had success when I was early twenties I'm sure I would have lost my mind, I would've just partied like crazy and probably blown everything I had.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.

I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die. --Natalya Shonski

I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

When I look back, if I'd played something differently, it might not have gone the way it did. So I don't feel like going back to my twenties and changing anything.

There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either.

Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe.