Twenties Quotes · Page 18

I know a fat girl, she wears an orange skirt. You give her twenty dollars and you can do your work.

— LL Cool J

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

— Malcolm X

It’s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.

— Jane Lynch

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

— Coco Chanel

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

— Max Beerbohm

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

— Daniel Handler

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

— Esmeralda Santiago

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

— Albert Ellis

In my twenties, I was virulently opposed to anyone commenting on my appearance, lest it come at the expense of my ability.

— Fiona Bruce

I can honestly say that the expectations of others, when I was in my twenties contributed to the lack of my own…

— Judi Love

Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child…

— Uma Thurman

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check…

— Jonathan Swift

Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.

— Mike Bickle

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's…

— George Eliot

I've been climbing for almost twenty years now. I'm more inspired and more motivated. I feel stronger than I ever have. I…

— Chris Sharma

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

— George Eliot

If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent…

— Michael Hudson

We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and…

— Curtis LeMay

I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they…

— Howard Hawks

The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full…

— David Burnett

People who grew up before the blogosphere, I just think that your brain is wired differently. I feel like in some ways…

— Meghan Daum

“There are times when all the lies you have told about yourself to yourself just fall away. In your twenties, you tell…

— John Hodgman

Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks…

— Camilla Lackberg

Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween, possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last…

— James Berardinelli

During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to…

— Jacques Derrida

After that really, I spent the majority of the spring going to tons and tons of regional festivals throughout America. Every corner…

— James Ponsoldt

If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But…

— Eleanora Duse

Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character…

— Charles Babbage

The eyes are witnesses that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty- four hours. But certain men, either from the love…

— Philipp Melanchthon

I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack]…

— Van Jones

I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with…

— Lord Chesterfield

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give…

— A. E. Housman

Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

— George Clooney

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

— Grover Cleveland

Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

— Theophilus London

I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.

— Katy Perry

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

— John Green

I don't think your twenties are for fitness, but when I got to my thirties I started to get fit.

— Sara Cox

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

— Moby

Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

— William Shakespeare