“I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.” YearsLooksTodaySchoolCertainEducationWonderTeachTwentiesEducationalPrimitiveSchooledPublic EducationGreat EducationSchools And EducationSchool EducationGreat EducationalBest EducationValue Of EducationEducation TodayEducational Change Author:John W. Gardner
“I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.” IfsKnowsWantYearsLongSaidStillsCertainFallNextActorsActingStageMovementCollegeAmountTenLong TimeTwentiesBoringStuckThrownSuspectsGood ActorsNineteen Book:Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
“I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.” PeopleBelieveCertainAudienceSeaFiguresPercentRiversTwentiesCaughtFishesBoatDimensionsLakesFishingFifthFisherman Author:Ed Zern
“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.” IfsWayCertainReligionAcceptingMoralImpossibleTwentiesBehaveBreakfastEthicalAestheticTransformedPropositionsAlchemy Author:Karen Armstrong
“There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.” WorldUseCertainHoursDifferencesCommonFourMinutesThis WorldTwentiesSecondsSixtySixty Minutes Author:Lou Holtz
“You see, the Foreign Service of the United States has grown so unbelievably in the last twenty years, and the requirements for admission are so high, and yet an awful lot of the work, I'd say fully 50-percent of the work in the Foreign Service abroad, is really routine work. All this is something that no one has licked.... You get a certain amount of discontent. It's bad for morale.” YearsStatesLastsCertainUnitedUnited StatesAmountPercentTwentiesAwfulRoutineRequirementsDiscontentAdmissionMoraleForeign ServiceRoutine Work Author:Charles E. Bohlen
“You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you’re out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsImportantLife IsCertainRealizingTwentiesAll TimeFleetingHow You FeelPeople In Your LifeFleeting Life Author:Johnny Galecki
“I think the misconceptions, there are certain people that are fixed in those with those beliefs, and been in those for twenty-five years, you're not going to change them.... What you've got to do is basically talk to the future about what you want to with the country.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsCountryCertainBeliefChangeFiveTwentiesWhat You WantFixedFive YearsMisconceptionTwenty Five Author:William M. Daley
“For me, personally, there is one really interesting thing. You're all a bit too young for that, but when you get to a certain level of experience, accumulation of experience you start slowly to once in a while get a whiff of the feeling, I'd love to be twenty years younger but with what I know and have experienced at this point.” KnowsYearsFeelingsYoungCertainBitsInterestingLevelsTwentiesAccumulationInteresting ThingsReally Interesting Author:Christoph Waltz
“No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.” WorldYearsMatterDoneWholeTodayCertainNaturalSecretPrinciplesPlayerUnderstoodTwentiesEightChampionMy TimeAdopted Author:Wilhelm Steinitz
“Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)” WorldWayFirstsKindMovingPurposeCertainTwentiesCamerasAround The WorldReceivingFirst Birthday Author:Carrie Mae Weems
“Sometime when I was in my mid-twenties I noticed, "Hey, even I don't go into too many art galleries. Why? Because I don't like the vibe in them. If even I'm not going into galleries, then who goes into art galleries in the first place?" It's just a certain, very narrow percentage of the population.” IfsFirstsArtCertainTwentiesPopulationHeyPercentagesGalleryArt Galleries Author:Eric Drooker
“The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.” WayYearsCharacterStoriesUsedCertainCoursesFatherEmotionTwentiesRemainsNot InterestedFifteenEpicCowardlyInterpretingAmbience Author:Elia Suleiman
“Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage. In my early twenties, if I wasn't getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long - I hope we get better with age.” PeopleIfsLongEnoughShowsAgeTogetherCertainAmountBandTwentiesGet BetterTunesGood Enough Author:Bonnie Raitt
“There have been times I thought that when I got a certain point in the story, a certain character was going to do a certain thing, only to get to that point and have the character make clear that he or she doesn't want to do that at all. That long phone conversation I thought the character was going to have? He hangs up the phone before the other person answers, and twenty pages of dialog I had half written in my head go out the window.” WantPersonsLongHas BeensCharacterStoriesCertainAnswersHalfClearWrittenConversationPagesWindowTwentiesPhonesHang Ups Author:Steve Erickson
“perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes.” EnoughSeemsMotherCertainBitsParentPleasurePayShareCostTaxesTwentiesDollarsAverageMealsRestaurantsMuseumsSensibleSensibilitySalaryBuffetsDensGood MealsWarren BuffetDrapes Author:Barack Obama
“In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford.” IfsMenFirstsDoeCertainHousePartyWeekCoupleMarriedTwentiesTownsPossessionDisappearMilesHipsSettlingGentlemanEngagedFrightenedRailroadsMarried Couples Book:Cranford Source: Cranford
“A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.” MenYearsCertainLostSeaEatingTwentiesBlueFishesWideLinksDiamondCoincidenceFridayCuffsBlue Sea Book:Laughter in the Dark Source: Laughter in the Dark
“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.” IfsWayLifeHumansRealityTruthLawCertainReligionChangeAcceptingMoralPracticeImpossibleHuman NatureAcceptanceEthicsDiscoveryFunctionTwentiesTransformationHistoricalMythDoctrineBehaveBreakfastEthicalAestheticTransformedConformPropositionsMetaphysicalAestheticsAlchemyFamous WomenSelf TransformationSpiritual TransformationEnhancement Author:Karen Armstrong
“Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet - never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man. Ay, there lay the sting. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn’t possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellignton or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert. What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid.” MenWayMindLittlesFactsRomanceCertainHurtChanceMorningMarriedTwentiesLaysNineHorribleWetUnclesBeing MarriedMaidsPitifulOld Maids Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery
“I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book, off in its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done; swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he wound up with.” WorldChildrenLittlesMadeBookDoneWantedJoyCertainAsksFatherCommonBoysCarSonTwentiesDisappointmentSpeedWoundsAbandonRugby Author:Neil Gaiman
“When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.” KnowsYearsMayHappensCertainFatherViewsOpinionPrinciplesStageInspirational LifeTwentiesSevenTrackProsperityInsightIgnorantProvidingSeven YearsTwenty OneFourteenProtectorKnow It AllStages Of LifePersonal Opinions Author:Mark Twain
“She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.” GivingYearsStillsTwoCertainNextFeltConsciousnessBloodDangerRegretApproachTwentiesAgingNineSatisfiedHandsomeApprehension Author:Elisabeth Elliot
“If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.” IfsYearsTwoWarCertainFightingForceFiveBloodMilitaryVictoryYears AgoFlowDestructionTwentiesFranceGermanyFive YearsTwenty FiveBarbarism Author:Edouard Daladier
“It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."” PeopleStillsCertainWomenLinesForgetLet MeTwentiesSevenLovelyFadedLovely Woman Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald