Twenties Quotes · Page 14

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

— Anne Lamott

In my twenties, I definitely had a sense of wanting to create stability for myself.

— Liv Tyler

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

— Roger Ascham

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

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

— Roger Ascham

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

— Nathan Englander

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

— Ian Somerhalder

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of…

— Hector Hugh Munro

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my…

— Leslie Mann

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first…

— Freeman Dyson

I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to…

— Billy Corgan

I wrote 'Twenties' back in 2009. I always wanted to tell a story where a queer black woman was the protagonist, and…

— Lena Waithe

The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of…

— Vincent Bugliosi

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin…

— Anonymous

“It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read…

— Patrick Rothfuss

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with…

— Samuel Richardson

It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me…

— Frank Stella

Let's forget about themes and mood boards. Let's start from a different point of view. You have to leave for two months…

— Christophe Lemaire

In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts…

— Evelyn Lau

Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when…

— Ben Stiller

I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the…

— Rob Portman

“The illusions of the twenties, however, may be essential to infuse our first commitments with excitement and intensity, and to sustain us…

— Gail Sheehy

As a young actor, there's a very small group of kids, just a handful. As you get older, all of a sudden,…

— Ricky Schroder

I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in…

— Kate Simon

When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest…

— Frank J. Tipler

Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been…

— Gary Shteyngart

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or…

— Samuel Richardson

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of…

— Muhammad Yunus

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,…

— Karen Armstrong

Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've…

— Susanna Kaysen

These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that.…

— George Weigel

Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

— Anonymous

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

— Dat Phan

Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

— Lilly Ledbetter

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

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

— Jean Marsh

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

— Mark Twain

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

— David Heinemeier Hansson