Twenty Quotes

1709 Twenty quotes by 1291 unique authors

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug. — Tom Lehrer
In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen… — Jill Lepore
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination,… — Jill Lepore
In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of… — Malcolm Gladwell
Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a… — Nancy Gibbs
I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult - that kind of… — Adam Lamberg
When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a… — Cory Booker
A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into… — Richard K. Morgan
I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one… — Randy Bachman
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it… — Edward McKendree Bounds
In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years! — Peter Diamandis
I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years. — John Catsimatidis
Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box… — Charles Comiskey
It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in… — Otto Wallach
When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to… — S. Ansky
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. — James Howard Kunstler
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. — Helen Rowland
You got to get twenty-seven outs to win. — Casey Stengel
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. — Mary Wilson Little
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say… — Hannes Alfven
Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year… — John Murray
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so… — Joseph C. Lincoln
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in… — Alan Patrick Herbert
If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America. — Theo Van Gogh

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