Twenties Quotes · Page 15

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

— Anne Lamott

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

— Barbara Ann Kipfer

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

— Christine Feehan

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

— Roger Ascham

Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.

— Nathan Englander

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

— Roger Ascham

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

— Brassai

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

— Robert Higgs

Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don't regret; that was what I…

— Luke Grimes

I wouldn't want to be a superstar, like Julia Roberts or Madonna, and be on the cover of 'US' magazine when I'm…

— Kellie Martin

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and…

— Anonymous

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of…

— George Bernard Shaw

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just…

— Wendy Wasserstein

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.

— Ingrid Bergman

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

— Rose Wilder Lane

When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think…

— Eric Drooker

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous…

— Margaret Halsey

Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my…

— Ellen DeGeneres

When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for…

— John le Carre

Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a…

— Annie Dillard

I'm not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south.…

— Mao Zedong

Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the…

— Michael Hudson

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you…

— Lester Bangs

When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm…

— Louisa May Alcott

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we…

— Robert Frost

If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the…

— Moshe Feldenkrais

Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,…

— Monica Wood

Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse…

— Mark Twain

One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest…

— Sam Harris

We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that…

— Nora Ephron

... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.

— Sam Altman

Yes I do like children ... Girl children...about eighteen or twenty.

— W. C. Fields

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

— Mason Cooley

Because I think your twenties are really difficult, aren't they?

— Lesley Sharp

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

— Sharon Horgan

Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.

— Joel Osteen

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

— Lauren DeStefano

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

— Cole Younger