Twenties Quotes · Page 16

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

— Gavin MacLeod

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

— William Shakespeare

Lust comes and goes, even in your twenties and thirties.

— Jean Marsh

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

— Lydia Davis

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.

— David Levien

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

— Mark Twain

I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

— Gloria Estefan

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been…

— Alfred Adler

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was…

— Janet Jackson

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in…

— Kristin Davis

sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

— Karin Slaughter

I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony…

— Rebecca Solnit

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,

— Greg Bear

You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life…

— Lady Randolph Churchill

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

— Karl Kraus

Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their…

— Andy Rooney

In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet,…

— John Ruskin

There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a…

— Frederick Douglass

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After…

— Eckhart Tolle

Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it…

— Ellen Buckingham Mathews

Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations…

— Pauline Oliveros

I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner.…

— Charles Lamb

Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors.…

— Ernie Harwell

... store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon…

— William Lawson

Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years…

— Pete Seeger

Now, just think, to accuse me of such a crime. Think of it! I, who have for twenty-five years single- handed struggled…

— Jacob Schiff

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William.…

— Ray Bradbury

Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of…

— Stuart L. Hart

I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is…

— Anonymous

I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give…

— Henry Ford

My twenties were amazing. My thirties were all highs and lows.

— Zoe Ball

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars

— Will Durst

Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.

— Anonymous

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

— Madame de Stael

Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.

— Bill Burr

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

— Thayer David

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

— Billy Wilder

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

— Edward Abbey