Twenties Quotes · Page 2

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.

— James MacArthur

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

— Shelley Berman

I used to be terribly aggressive in my twenties.

— Kathy Burke

I might have had too many friends in my twenties.

— Chadwick Boseman

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

— John Catsimatidis

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.

— Rita Hayworth

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

— Errol Morris

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

— Richard Attenborough

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.

— Anonymous

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.

— Ferdinand Foch

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

— Albert Ellis

Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

— George Clooney

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

— Grover Cleveland

Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

— Theophilus London

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

— George Bernard Shaw

It was official. I now wanted to murder a ghost, a notion I'd discarded as unlikely only twenty minutes before. (Cat)

— Jeaniene Frost

It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think…

— Viggo Mortensen

Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening,…

— Fran Lebowitz

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier,…

— Christopher Walken

New York is a fun town to go out in. During my twenties and into my thirties I had a good time…

— Will Ferrell

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could…

— Richard Bach

I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take…

— Judy Garland

After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that…

— Freeman Dyson

We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty…

— Alex Jones

Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always…

— Frederick Rolfe

Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still,…

— Ray Walston

It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains…

— Paul Merton

I was already in my early twenties, but I looked much younger because I was fresh-faced and, well, short. So I did…

— Joel Grey

... store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon…

— William Lawson

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William.…

— Ray Bradbury

Now, just think, to accuse me of such a crime. Think of it! I, who have for twenty-five years single- handed struggled…

— Jacob Schiff

Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of…

— Stuart L. Hart

One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest…

— Sam Harris

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

We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that…

— Nora Ephron

Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors.…

— Ernie Harwell