“By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.” KnowsMenShouldAgeYoungLyingPersonalityTasteTwentiesMaturityYoung ManSpecialistsDeathbedImmaturityPremiumPostponing Author:Bill Vaughan
“When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.” KnowsArtMy OwnAcceptingTasteTwentiesFortyWorks Of ArtMilieu Author:W. H. Auden
“Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.” KnowsLooksJoyWinningKnow HowYouthFlowerSorrowTasteFameTwentiesPraiseVictimCaughtFortyGossipCaught UpAlasConcealedAdvertisementsCalumnyJoys And SorrowsWhirlpools Author:Sarah Bernhardt
“My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.” WellsEarthFacesFatherLeftAdventureTasteDiedTwentiesDollarsPursuitAlmightyTwenty OneResignedWanderersFather DiedMy Father Died Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.” ShouldFirstsScienceFunForceCenturyDutyTasteTwentiesThroatDragKicking Author:George Porter
“I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.” WellsArtMatterPlayMightRememberFacesSpiritualSocialTechnologyFieldsPaintingTasteSpeechConcernTwentiesInstrumentsShiningMusicalIntellectMannersEaseGentleGood ManEngineeringEngineersBoresDelicacyGood MannersBreadthAgilityMusical Instruments Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.” YearsMindIdeasRealityHappensCoursesWishRealizingLosesMemoriesInfluenceTasteIllusionTwentiesLikesDislikeCrowdedOf My MindYear OneLikes And Dislikes Author:Willa Cather
“I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.” ImportantBookHomeHouseWishSeaMinutesTasteThousandTwentiesLibraryGrantedLeagueBlissBrownCampsBicycleRushingBasketsBunniesLibrary BooksDevouring Author:Eudora Welty
“One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside. “You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet is this?” PeopleHandsNextPlanetsTasteTwentiesCornersBlockRestaurantsChickensQueuesWaffles Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.” WorldWayLittlesWholeMomentsLyingHoursHalfDangerousArmsColdTasteMouthsGunStandingTwentiesFingersDefeatPlanningWhole WorldRoofVeinsAnother WayTriggersDangerous ThingsDrawersHalf HoursSlitsAspirinGirl Interrupted Book:Girl, Interrupted Source: Girl, Interrupted