Twenty Quotes

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How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate. — Peter F. Hamilton
I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life… — Andrea Gibson
The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen. — Ray Bradbury
Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so… — Lauren DeStefano
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. — Napoleon Bonaparte
And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the way, I must… — Nicholas Sparks
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your… — Charles Spurgeon
His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room,… — Carl Sandburg
Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows. — William Shakespeare
If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser… — Elizabeth Gaskell
I wish I could hold you,' she continued, bitterly, 'till we were both dead! I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your… — Emily Bronte
A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe. — Stephen Hawking
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or… — Ursula K. Le Guin
No alcohol, Riley." She nodded at the screen. "How are you liking the twenty-first century?" Riley burped. "The Take That are most melodic. And God… — Eoin Colfer
I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two… — Rainbow Rowell
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the… — John Green
The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me. — Rick Riordan
Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old. — Paulo Coelho
Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker’s dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren’t in our favor. “Maybe they… — Ilona Andrews
I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's… — Jim Butcher
Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she… — Maggie Stiefvater
She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell… — John Green
It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you… — Helen Mirren
Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram. — Charles Dickens

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