Twenties Quotes

New York is great in your twenties.

— Bonobo

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

— Terence McKenna

Bebop has set music back twenty years.

— Tommy Dorsey

Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment.

— Mary Kay Ash

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

— Errol Morris

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

— John Catsimatidis

I used to be terribly aggressive in my twenties.

— Kathy Burke

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

— Richard Attenborough

I had sex with a couple guys but it wasn't a baseball team. I saved that for my twenties.

— Chelsea Handler

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

— James Howell

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

— George Lakoff

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

— Earl Weaver

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

— Robert Herrick

In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

— Cheryl Strayed

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

— Anonymous

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

— Mother Teresa

The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for…

— Aaron Zigman

The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for…

— Karen Marie Moning

When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted…

— Nostradamus

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some…

— John Steinbeck

When you're further along in your career, you probably have more money and more means; you have to stop yourself from giving…

— Pamela Druckerman

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for…

— Anonymous

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this…

— Stella Benson

The purple light or glow, which appears roughly fifteen or twenty minutes after sunset... looks like an isolated bright spot fairly high…

— James Elkins

I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and…

— Harmon Killebrew

[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the…

— Max Weber

The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so…

— Phyllis McGinley

No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when…

— David Levithan

I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day,…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to…

— Aberjhani

In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what…

— Steve Erickson

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made…

— Tyler Perry

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean…

— Walter Isaacson

I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece…

— Alexis De Veaux

Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point…

— Richard Dawkins

We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as…

— Rudolf Steiner

Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the body’s circadian…

— Sam Kean

Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete…

— Thomas Huxley