“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
“Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.” LoveYearsSometimesMightFacesAbilityImagineFiguresTwentiesStrongerCuresEyeglasses Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.” IfsWantWritingTryingTwoHoursMinutesFiguresAmountPicksTwentiesDesksSpares Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it, and people who don't, so I don't worry about any of that. I've been doing it for over twenty years. I've always written because it was something I had to do, never for the glory.” PeopleYearsWorryWrittenFiguresGloryTwentiesAlbumsRelateSpoken Word Author:John Trudell
“My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'” KnowsWayTryingYearsSaidIdeasSpiritualSpiritNightReligiousSleepVisionFiguresStudentsWake UpTwentiesStructurePreparedRingsStorytellingTailsMuseThey SaidSnakesOne NightGoing To SleepAugustChemistSwallowingWilderBenzene Author:David Milch
“I spent my twenties not really participating in the work force in any real way. I acted a tiny bit, but that was just because it was the only way I knew how to make money, and I sublet my apartment and lived in the woods and just tried to figure out who I was and what I wanted, what my real desire was and not just what I was used to doing, and it was a really confusing and painful, but really rich and amazing time.” WayRealWantedUsedDesireForceBitsRichFiguresTwentiesPainfulWoodsTinyMaking MoneyApartmentConfusingParticipating Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“I didn't really have anyone in particular who inspired me or that I found fascinating as a kid. It wasn't until I was in my early twenties that I began to find people - and they were all historic figures - that I began to relate to and find some inspiration in.” PeopleInspirationKidsFoundFiguresParticularTwentiesInspiredRelateFascinatingHistoric Author:Chelsea Manning
“When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.” IfsTryingKindAgeCreativeFiguresTwentiesImpactWho You AreWork OutArtisticSeventeen Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.” MindHumansGivenGreaterFiguresLowsPercentTwentiesInstinctInsightIntuitionHuman MindFlashEfficiencyHunchesGreater Power Book:Foundation Trilogy Source: Foundation Trilogy
“Do you really think he was flirting with me?" "Let's see. He gave you candy you hate - I saw your face - and a CD of songs..." He looks at the CD. "All of these are, like, twenty years old at least. Figures. Oh, and he groped your face. Sounds like true love to me.” ThinkingYearsLooksFacesHateSongSoundSawsFiguresTwentiesYour FaceFlirtingCandyCds Book:Something, Maybe Source: Something, Maybe
“I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.” ThinkingTwoStuffFiguresSixLateWindowTwentiesToo LateTwenty Two Author:Rainbow Rowell
“That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the Hindu paintings? All sorts of grotesque and unnatural figures. What do you see in a Hindu temple? A Chaturbhanga Narayana or some such thing. But take into consideration any Italian picture or Grecian statue-what a study of nature you find in them! A gentleman for twenty years sat burning a candle in his hand, in order to paint a lady carrying a candle in her hand.” YearsHandsOrderStudyFiguresPaintingIdealsTwentiesPaintObservationBurningGentlemanSatConsiderationTemplesItalianRealisticHinduismCandleEvidentSculptureStatuesUnnaturalGrotesque Author:Swami Vivekananda