As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live;… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I started using drugs when I was thirteen. By twenty-one, I was shooting up coke and heroin. In my early twenties, I… — Angel Grant Copy Share Image
That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Initiating change is not about the multitude; it’s about the audacity of a few, for history attests that the course of humanity… — Shree Shambav Copy Share Image
It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
In the past I've tended to overreact. I was sure I'd be a superstar by the time I was twenty-one. Baseball messed… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
“True strength lies not in the stability of our surroundings, but in the unwavering belief in our ability to rise above adversity… — Shree Shambav Copy Share Image
I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I… — Frank James Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
