“I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!” IfsThinkingYearsWellsDoeSaidPlayMightBitsWhiteForgetJudgingTwentiesPhotographerEightNinePianoMinorsViolinExaggerationNine Years Author:Paul Strand
“Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.” PeopleWorldYearsHeartRememberEvilForgetCitiesConsciousnessCollegeConceptsYears AgoTragedyTwentiesResponseIncrediblesUniversityTerrorismVulnerableSoilResolveNever ForgetRiceBombingHighlightsOklahomaResiliencyOklahoma City Author:Jim Bridenstine
“So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongWould BeForgetFourPaperNewsTwentiesDecadesDisappointedPapersDroppingFinishingBad NewsExpectancyLife ExpectancyConvocation Author:Adrian Tan
“Stan Lee always wanted to do another syndicated strip while we were doing Spider-Man. I was working two jobs, and he wanted to make time to do another strip. He wanted to do a humor strip. I said, 'Stan, I barely make it through the week now. How the hell am I going to do another strip?' He said, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I always forget it takes you longer to do a page than it takes me to do twenty pages.'” MenSaidTwoBookWantedJobsForgetHellWeekPagesTwentiesSorryComicTake MeComic BookI'm SorrySpidersForget ItMaking TimeSpider ManTwo Jobs Author:John Romita, Sr.
“If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!” IfsShouldYearsHumansArtSoulFormActorsForgetEffortActingMistakeSpecialFieldsShould HaveTwentiesLaysAgingBottomTheatreTechniqueMediumsDespiteCertaintyThirtyMovieVisualsAlasHuman SoulTheatricalThirty YearsConcentratingMy MistakesEmployingExponents Author:Eleanora Duse
“Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.” PeopleHardForgetTwentiesDamnRecklessDrinkersIrresponsibility Author:Dorothy Parker
“You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.” KnowsNextLeftEasySleepForgetTakenToo MuchMinutesCoupleWake UpTwentiesPillsIrresponsibleMedicationForget YouLeft AloneSleeping Pills Author:Judy Garland
“Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.” IfsGivingHappensForgetMillionsFiveTwentiesDollarsForget ItMillion DollarsTwenty Five Author:Paul Reed Smith
“Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most writers are just trying to pay the bills, like anyone else - Stephanie Meyers is the literary equivalent of a television evangelist. Fork over twenty bucks and she'll help you forget your troubles for a while. I certainly don't fault her for her success, but I hope she has no illusions about the quality of her craft or the longevity of her efforts.” TryingMeanHelpingCoursesWaterForgetEffortPayQualityTroubleTelevisionDivineIllusionTwentiesBillsFaultsCraftsBordersLongevityBucksForksForget YouEvangelistsDeep Water Author:Kevin Keck
“Let's forget about themes and mood boards. Let's start from a different point of view. You have to leave for two months all of a sudden. What would you put in your suitcase? What are the twenty essential pieces that you will need and how would you design it to be cool, and you'll want to wear it?” WantNeedsTwoDifferentForgetViewsPiecesDesignMonthsEssentialsTwentiesPoint Of ViewMoodBoardsThemeBeing CoolTwo MonthsSuitcasesDifferent Points Of View Author:Christophe Lemaire
“Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of each, upper and lower case. Punctuation and alternate characters and numbers - let's not forget numbers - can add another 40 or so.” PeopleTwoIdeasCharacterForgetNumbersCasesDesignSixLettersTwentiesAddVersionsNo IdeaAlphabetPunctuationTypefaces Author:Michael Bierut
“In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need new ways of assessing the latter. There are people who will continue to write nineteenth-century novels in the early twenty-first, and even win major prizes for them, but that's not very interesting, intellectually or emotionally.” PeopleWayNeedsWritingFirstsEndsCoursesWinningForgetInterestingNovelCenturyMajorsTwentiesNovelistsLatterPrizeJudgedNew WaysVery InterestingNineteenth CenturyAssessing Author:Pankaj Mishra
“We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.” PeopleThinkingWantEndsBodyYoungDiesNextForgetOne DaySolitudeTwentiesDeclineNext DayOld PeopleEightyRottenClose To Death Author:Muriel Barbery
“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.” MenTodayPeaceGoalSleepWalksForgetMorningFiveThousandTwentiesMilesEvery MorningTwenty FiveThousand Miles Author:Leo Tolstoy
“I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?” YearsChildrenLongCareEarthPastSufferingWishLosesForgetTwentiesSorryGravesMy ChildrenRejoiceLong AgoI CareWretchedHeathcliffForget Me Author:Emily Bronte
“No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.” KnowsMenShouldMayHas BeensArtStillsIdeasDoneEnoughAgePastYoungScienceThreeGamesForgetYouthMajorsDiedTwentiesOriginalsMathematicsSevenInstanceMathematicalUselessYoung ManThirtyFiftyFortySixtyMathematicianGreat WorkCompetentTwenty OneOriginal IdeasAbelRamanujanRiemann Author:G. H. Hardy
“Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.” LoveMeanLongI CanAgeYoungForgetAudienceFrontsTwentiesAgingOld AgeVitalityGetting OldGrowing OldTwenty One Author:George Burns
“A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.” MenYearsMayStillsCareFunForgetFiveTwentiesTake CareFive YearsDucksStairsTwenty FiveCellarsFurnaces Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley
“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