Twenties Quotes · Page 19

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.

— Joseph Joffre

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

— Jane McGonigal

Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

— William Wordsworth

We're in our twenties and we don't know anything and it's awesome.

— Taylor Swift

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

— Paul Bowles

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

— Haruki Murakami

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

— Bill Ayers

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just…

— Wendy Wasserstein

“...your twenties are the years when a man wends and wanders, searching for who knows what - we say money or love…

— Brian Doyle

I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'

— Anthony Browne

Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don't regret; that was what I…

— Luke Grimes

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

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

If it's a choice between spending twenty five dollars for tickets to a movie and almost that much again for drinks and…

— Tim Lucas

There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing…

— Bill McKibben

It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how,…

— Diane Wood

When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine…

— Bob Dylan

I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I…

— Griffith John

I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking…

— Harriet Tubman

“a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose…

— Samuel Johnson

Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty…

— Will Cuppy

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

— Henry Ford

In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but…

— Gerald Weinberg

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I…

— Khaled Hosseini

It’s okay to show up at a guy’s house with a dozen roses and declare your undying affection. It’s okay to have…

— Veronica Chambers

For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw…

— Markus Zusak

You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that…

— Anonymous

It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company…

— Mary Rowlandson

I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go…

— Anne Lamott

“Nobody knows anything when they are in their midtwenties.”

— Matthew Quick

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

— Julian Fellowes

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

— Arnold Bennett

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

— Debbie Reynolds

I started to sing a lot more during my twenties when I was struggling with depression.

— Jenny Ryan

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

— Gene Kelly

It wasn't until entering my twenties that I began to identify my real dream as an actress.

— Liu Yifei