Twenties Quotes · Page 16

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

— Amelia Barr

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

— Ismail Serageldin

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

— Jane McGonigal

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

— Nathaniel Philbrick

There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

— Eleanor Porter

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

— Joseph Joffre

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

— William Wordsworth

It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight

— Howard Raiffa

I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the…

— Judy Blume

The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of…

— Florence King

All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished…

— Shakira

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I…

— Brian Clough

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.

— Karen Marie Moning

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for…

— Tracey Ullman

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and…

— Lady Gregory

It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in…

— Tess Gerritsen

A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other…

— Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of…

— Ithiel de Sola Pool

"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put…

— John Updike

[from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words]…

— Andy Stanton

Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did…

— Olivia Newton-John

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Joss Whedon

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

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

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

My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich…

— David Milch

One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls,…

— Indira Gandhi

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse…

— Mark Twain

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

— Herbert Hoover

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

— William Feather

I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.

— Milton Berle

One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.

— John Wayne

The Church of God could not live twenty four hours without Rhodes rolls at Thanksgiving.

— Wilford Woodruff

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

— Bob Dylan

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

— Just Fontaine

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

— Anthony de Mello