Quotes of: Twenty Keyword

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at th...

Thomas Carlyle

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.

Stefan Sagmeister

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

Jerry Saltz

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

About a Boy

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

He twirled a finger, the universal symbol for roll down your window -- universal despite the fact that no one had manually rolled down a window in twenty years.

Afterparty

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night

Adam, you could be a lesbian vampire succubus who moonlights as a golem and I would still want to suck your cock twenty-four-seven.

Kick at the Darkness

Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.

The Knitting Diaries: The Twenty-First Wish\Coming Unraveled\Home to Summer Island

The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.

Rendezvous with Rama

Beauty doesn't have to be anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto ?

The Salmon of Doubt

Umm, how old are you?” Alexis asked, a little hesitant to answer before making sure he wasn’t a minor. “Twenty-one, but age is just a number,” the guy responded.

The Shoreline

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Yes. Yes. No. One time in high school. Three times in my twenties. Rocks no salt. Yes. Four. Never. And how dare you! I will take no further questions.

Seriously... I'm Kidding

The gentleman had been an uncommonly affable fellow, but every time he counted to twenty (and he seemed to do so with strange frequency), he skipped the number twelve.

The Sum of All Kisses

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

Norwegian Wood

I had been allowed to believe in man's innate goodness for the twenty-two years of my life, and I had hoped to carry the belief with me to my grave.

The Lifeboat

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Limitations

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

It's a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass.

Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood

How did you get in here?' (...) 'How I got here isn't important, because I could do it twenty times again, each time a different way.

The Spirit Thief