Twenties Quotes · Page 70

Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off…

— Tim O'Brien

[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't…

— Malcolm X

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to…

— Charles Lamb

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

— Ray Bradbury

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.

— James Young

I retired at twenty-nine, bought a life-time pass on American Airlines and my only goal in life was to party like a…

— Mark Cuban

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

— Lauren DeStefano

I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned,…

— Mark Nepo

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

— James Howard Kunstler

The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before…

— Harry S. Truman

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

— Samuel Richardson

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

— M.M. Kaye

I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or…

— Jonathan Lethem

I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

— Anthony de Mello

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what…

— Norm MacDonald

It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Having spent all of my teens and my twenties partying hard (very hard) then working the next day, I can assure you…

— James Mullinger

Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know…

— Sarah Bernhardt

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as…

— Zygmunt Bauman