Twenties Quotes · Page 8

One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.

— Henry IV of France

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

— Earl Weaver

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.

— Robert Herrick

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

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

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and…

— Kim Cattrall

I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and…

— Morgan Freeman

When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting…

— Wallace Stegner

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn…

— Donald Miller

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

— Dario Fo

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

— Bill Gates

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,…

— William Shakespeare

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I should be more vocal about the things I believe are doing us harm, but many years ago in my early twenties,…

— Jasper Carrott

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man…

— Theodore Sturgeon

And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have…

— Douglas Coupland

I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately…

— Ed Zern

We went to a remote Panda Base which was insane because inside there were several cribs which held about twenty baby pandas.…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose…

— Ben Sherwood

Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had…

— Errol Morris

Suppose it was demonstrated that one out of twenty alcoholics could learn to become a moderate social drinker. The experienced clinician would…

— Paul Samuelson

Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has…

— Anonymous

Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the…

— Joss Whedon

Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating…

— Dwight Garner

I think that's so particularly exciting about this moment in time is all the new platforms that are now existing, the Netflixes…

— Colin Callender

Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and…

— Lewis Carroll

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything…

— Anton Chekhov

If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say…

— Jack Handey

I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value…

— Andy Grove

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

— Max Beerbohm

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

— Brigid Lowry

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

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

— George Bernard Shaw

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

— David Luiz

Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.

— Jane Yolen

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

— Alexander Gordon Smith