Twenties Quotes · Page 20

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

— Thayer David

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

— Billy Wilder

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

— Jean Marsh

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

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

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

— Phil Ochs

Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh…

— Woody Allen

No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my mid-twenties.

— Sheila Heti

I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at…

— Amy Plum

Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he…

— Trevanian

... when your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Jeaniene Frost

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short…

— Zadie Smith

I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I…

— Hugh Hefner

“The people I hung out with in my early twenties were middle-class and, at least to our minds, artistic. We’d all turned…

— David Sedaris

[Erwin Rommel] explained why in short words, what the two generals' message and then he explained his position and he gave some…

— Manfred Rommel

Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty…

— Virginia Woolf

If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty…

— George Bernard Shaw

If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to…

— Rachel

I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job…

— Pete Seeger

Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they…

— Art Buchwald

Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None…

— Anonymous

I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect…

— Barack Obama

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures…

— P. J. O'Rourke

History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got…

— Anna Brackett

When I was ambushed by global warming advocates recently - no, they haven't given up - they asked me the same questions…

— James Inhofe

For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had…

— Virginia Gildersleeve

I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was…

— Markus Zusak

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

— Edward Abbey

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

— R. Lee Ermey

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

— Charles A. Reich

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

— Charles W. Pickering

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

— Lemmy

One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.

— Smedley Butler