“It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over twenty-five thousand copies and it is surprising how many people's feelings are hurt, how many screwballs think their brain children have been stolen, and how many people feel that they have been portrayed in a manner calculated to bring infamy upon them.” PeopleThinkingFeelsChildrenHas BeensBookFeelingsHurtBrainFiveThousandTwentiesCopiesSurprisingStolenTwenty FiveUnsuccessfulInfamy Author:Margaret Mitchell
“I made a lot of changes in my life between my twenties and thirties, and it all sort of revolves around how I think people with nerdier brains tend to problem-solve and approach things differently then "norms."” PeopleThinkingMadeProblemBrainApproachTwentiesSolveNormChanging My Life Author:Chris Hardwick
“People who grew up before the blogosphere, I just think that your brain is wired differently. I feel like in some ways my sensibility is aligned with people twenty years older than me than somebody six years younger. Because there was a sort of cutoff.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsYearsBrainGrewSixGrew UpTwentiesSensibility Author:Meghan Daum
“When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared.” WayFeelingsCoursesBrainStruggleCuttingIdentityTwentiesAppetiteAdolescenceOngoingRemarksStarvationDaydreamingSixteenHormonesRetrospectGrooveSo SadNo One Cares Author:Kate Christensen
“In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for that reason determined, in their words, that "we must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years."” YearsSaidReasonGovernmentBrainCasesIntellectualModelsTwentiesDeterminedFascistsAntonio Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!” IfsHeartAgeBrainHavensTwentiesThirtyBirthdayRebelEstablishmentUprising30th Birthday Author:Kevin Spacey
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.” IfsHeartWisdomPoliticalBrainTwentiesIntelligenceConservativeForty Author:Winston Churchill
“I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.” IfsYearsGirlEnergyBrainHugeDecidedThirdsTwentiesSecondsDeafSeventeenSeventeen Years Old Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.” WantGivingImportantPlayGamesHoursSleepBrainWatchesStudyFourTwentiesVideoRidingBikeWhat's ImportantPlaying Video Games Author:Ned Vizzini
“Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.” HumanityEvilHoursBrainFourModernEffectsHabitActivityMiracleTwentiesCoffeeTensionComplexityTwelveModern LifeTempo Author:Margaret Meagher
“Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.” IfsYearsWellsPersonsThreeBusinessBrainStreetsWallNormalPicksPercentTwentiesIntelligentInvestingAverageExpertsConvince Book:One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
“If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.” IfsNeedsWellsMatterRealityDesireHouseHoursPoorBrainEducationWatchesStudyFourMiddleTvsBalanceTwentiesPressureNo Matter WhatBlindRadioNewspapersMagazinesCrapObscureGroundedDeafConsensusSincerelyExtremistSupermarketsWell RoundedNuttyMiddle Of The RoadDeaf And Blind Author:Ivan Stang