Quotes of: Twenty Keyword

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Chinua Achebe

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

Cole Younger

If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?

Jason Katims

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

Lena Dunham

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Vladimir Nabokov

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.

Paul Theroux

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

John Philip Sousa

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Jacques Barzun

When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.

Matt Dillon

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

Ian pretended that not knowing what to do was the hard part when, somewhere inside, I think he knew that making a choice about something is when the real uncertainty begins. The more terrifying uncertainty is wanting something and not knowing how to ...

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

Traveling in a third-world country is the closest thing there is to being married and raising kids. You have glorious hikes and perfect days on the beach. You go on adventures you would never try, or enjoy, alone. But you also can't get away from eac...

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain. Every man is broken into twe...

Memento mori

Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 percent of the participants. In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. Twen...

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Molecules form and dissolve, returning to the primordial soup of atoms. But consciousness survives the death of the molecules on which it rides. What was once a bundle of energy in a sunbeam turns into a leaf, only to fall and change again into soil....

The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

It's a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in our wake, and at the same time, are drawn to things that kill: whiskey and cigarette, unprotected sex and deep fried bur...

How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Colleen McCullough

Billionaires’ working hours are twenty-four seven. They don’t wait till Monday.

To Marry a Prince

So basically,” Calvin said, “this is in a walk-up on West Twenty-Second Street with no music and no Julie Andrews.

Looking After Joey

London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!

Twenties Girl