Quotes of: Twenty Keyword

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

Charles Frazier

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

Daniel Radcliffe

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

Suzanne Somers

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

William Osler

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.

Remember Me?

SWAT is already on its way. I'll be at your position in about ten minutes. SWAT should arrive in about fifteen to twenty." [Javier:] "I'll have her by then.

Striking Distance

The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.

The Science of Interstellar

The greedy bastard, thought Weintî. He knows perfectly well that twenty shekels is the going rate for a female household slave of my age.

Mistress of the Topaz

I was hot and horny as hell. Which was typical of me. I’m twenty-five, and I’m healthy, and a healthy girl is always thinking about sex.

Naked and Sexual

Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.

Love

took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.

Telegraph Avenue

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero. Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.

Twenties Girl

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

Twenties Girl

… the best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago. If, for some reason, you did not plant it then, the next best time to plant a tree is now.

Pig's Foot

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

Paper Towns

...I guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...

The Thin Man

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

Twenty Prose Poems