“I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldPleaseTwentiesAsking Book:Yes Please Source: Yes Please
“We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other players must guess what it is by asking questions that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no." I imagine every language has a similar game, and, for those of us who speak the language of science, the game is called The Scientific Method.” PlayGamesSpeakLanguageImaginePlayerObjectsTwentiesAskingMethodAsking QuestionsScientific Method Author:Karl Barry Sharpless
“It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingEnoughWantedLyingAsksMinesFairsTwentiesAskingTwenty OneTell Me The Truth Book:The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences Source: The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences
“When I was in my early twenties, my mom started repeating things, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. It was like, Oh, God, this is not right. When I was 25, my brother and I finally told our dad we had to take her to the doctor.” StoriesBrotherMomDadDoctorsTwentiesAskingMy MomMy Brother Author:Lauren Miller
“And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.” HoursFourTwentiesAskingStealingSensationsNew LifeRest Of Your LifeAsking Questions Author:Douglas Coupland
“One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris.” ThinkingWayWellsSaidStillsGirlStudySpecialMetsOne DayMarriedIndiaTwentiesAskingLondonIndianTwenty OneSari Author:Indira Gandhi
“It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!” MenWayInspirationalYearsFirstsLongHas BeensSelfBornAnswersAchieveLong TimeExpectationsTwentiesAskingIndividualityPainfulAcceptedInvisibleSelf DiscoveryRealizationBeing YourselfContradictionNaiveLong WayContradictoryBeing MyselfI Love MyselfInspirations Being Yourself Book:Invisible Man Source: Invisible Man
“In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.” LittlesMatterToo MuchEqualAdvantageTwentiesAskingFaultsBottomOfferingCentsCommerceDutchAsking Too Much Author:George Canning
“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of rhodods. with Pines below me as thick & bad to get through as our Fuegian Fagi on the hill tops, & except the towering peaks of P. S. that, here shoot up on all hands there is little difference in the mt sceneryhere however the blaze of Rhod. flowers and various colored jungle proclaims a differently constituted region in a naturalists eye & twenty species here, to one there, always are asking me the vexed question, where do we come from?” LittlesHandsEyeDifferencesRocksPaintingFlowerEvolutionTwentiesAskingSpeciesVariousForestsHillsRegionsThickJungleSceneryNaturalistRosaVegetation Author:Joseph Dalton Hooker
“A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?""Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?"How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, "I'm drinking it, aren't I?"Love still needs expression between those who share it.” IfsLoveNeedsYearsStillsCoursesOpinionWifeShareHavensExpressionHusbandMarriedTwentiesAskingWineDrinkingVicesSatisfiedVice VersaVintageDo You Love Me Author:Leo Buscaglia