Twenties Quotes

• Gold were as good as twenty orators.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Gold
  • Twenties
  • Orators

• Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Friends
  • Firsts
  • Century

• Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Shadow
  • Grief
  • Substance

• Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

  

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White
  • Home
  • States
  • Agreement

• I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.

  

  Deborah Reber
  • Girl
  • Teen
  • Struggled

• Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000.

  

  William Wegman
  • Painting
  • Photography
  • Subjects

• Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

  

  Dat Phan
  • Looks
  • Fifty
  • Until

• Saying "I'll start managing my money as soon as I get caught up" is like an overweight person saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as soon as I lose twenty pounds."

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Up
  • Money
  • Exercise

• There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.

  

  George Bird Grinnell
  • Solitude
  • Accounts
  • Solemnity

• If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right.

  

  Nico Tortorella
  • Doing
  • Twenties
  • Objectified

• Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!

  

  Gertrude B. Elion
  • Science
  • Biographies
  • Chemist

• Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Trouble
  • Kissing
  • Hundred

• In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.

  

  Gerald Weinberg
  • Computer
  • Production
  • Buying

• According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.

  

  Morey Amsterdam
  • Statistics
  • Fellows
  • Seconds

• I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Twenties

• Being twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart.

  

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
  • Imagination
  • Hearts
  • Twenties

• It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Difficult
  • Genius
  • Forties

• If you had a daily printout from the brain of an average twenty-four-year-old male, it would probably go like this: sex, need coffee, sex, traffic, sex, sex, what an asshole, sex, ham sandwich, sex, sex, etc

  

  Kate White
  • Need
  • Coffee
  • Four

• I was talking to my mom one time, like, "Gosh, I'm 30." And she's like, "In your thirties you're even stronger than in your twenties." I didn't believe her, but I have played better in my thirties.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Believe
  • Mom
  • Talking

• I hate dates. I sit at home all day, and I don't fart once. I go on a date and I've got twenty in the bank straight away.

  

  Carl Barron
  • Home
  • Hate
  • Twenties

• I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

  

  Michael Schenker
  • Hours
  • Twenties
  • Selflessness

• I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.

  

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • Europe
  • Standards
  • Twenties

• One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.

  

  Walter Truett Anderson
  • Growing
  • Century
  • Machines

• What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.

  

  Erich Segal
  • Beautiful
  • Brilliant
  • Twenties

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