“We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago, it would not be expected that the New York Times would explain itself. The concept of what accountability.” YearsNew YorkConversationNewsConceptsYears AgoOrganizationTwentiesMovedExpectedErasAccountabilityNew York TimesFanfare Author:Alex Jones
“I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.” WritingFirstsBookHappensFiveTwentiesExpectedThirty Author:David Sedaris
“I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.” PeopleKnowsStillsFactsJobsMovingChallengesCollegeMomDadInvolvedTwentiesExpectedMoving ForwardGraduatesApartmentMom And Dad Author:Anna Quindlen
“So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.” YearsSeemsEarthAmountDegreesYears AgoTwentiesExpectedEnormous Author:Bill McKibben
“I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'” PeopleThinkingFeelsWellsCuttingTwentiesPressureEdgesExpectedEaseCutting Edge Author:Jude Law
“I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.” YearsVisionTwentiesEightExpected Author:Sarah MacLean
“Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.” EternalAll ThingsTwentiesAgingAffairExpectedBoredTolerateSixtyLove AffairEternal Love Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.” TakenHappenedColorBrotherComfortableScientistTwentiesPhotographExpectedMagazinesMy BrotherAlmightyMechanicTwenty OneHiroshimaScientific Truth Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five