“About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.” MenKindStoriesHandsSpiritReadingGriefPaperPagesTwentiesI RealizedTestimonyForeheadsFourteenLukeGazingCharismaticHand Holding Author:Blake Butler
“Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.” WellsFiveTwentiesTexasTwenty FiveFourteen Author:Jerry Hall
“I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!” YearsRealJobsFatherCausesCan DoMy OwnCuttingDadTwentiesMy DadMexicoEightyBucksFourteenLiverSeventeenDrinkersReal JobsLove My DadI Love My DadDrifters Author:Christopher Titus
“In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what we today think of as libertarianism - conservatism, at least for me, had been defined by Jeffersonian credos like "the best governed are the least governed" and "I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" that were very idealistic and romantic to a kid.” ThinkingMenYearsMindKidsTodayFormChangedEternalTwentiesConservativeTyrannyDefinedLibertarianismConservatismHostilityFourteenIdealisticCredo Author:Steve Erickson
“I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.” RealFatherFiveNiceMinesTenTwentiesGuitarTwenty FiveFourteenCarolinaNorth CarolinaDurham Author:James Taylor
“Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.” CenturyMastersStandardsTwentiesArchitectureNineteenth CenturyFourteenBuilderCarpenterMasonsApprenticeship Author:Martin Filler
“Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want and men can't be bothered with. ... The perfect match, if you ask me, is between the Cosmo woman and the fourteen-year old boy.” IfsMenWantYearsAgeGirlAsksPerfectBoysFourTwentiesAsk MeBotheredFidelityFourteenWomen WantPerfect Match Book:High Fidelity Source: High Fidelity
“If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they're drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.” PeopleIfsThinkingCoursesAsksConsequenceTwentiesCalmDrunkTwenty OneFourteenCalm Down Author:Ben Aaronovitch
“What's this?" She pulled out a card and held it away from her face. "I can't read what it says." I took it from her and read it aloud. 1. Beeber Bifocal 2. Twenty Mile House 3. Bee 4. Your escape Fourteen miracles to go.” I CanFacesHouseMiracleTwentiesMilesCardsBeesFourteen Author:Maria Semple
“When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.” YearsAgeLastsScienceFatherTwentiesSevenAmazedSeven YearsTwenty OneFourteenUnintelligentAstounded Author:Mark Twain
“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
“People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I've had my jaws and hands broken. One arm is out of place. I've paid my dues in this business.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsMadeHandsBrokenArmsPaidTwentiesDuesNineMade ItFourteen Author:Larry Holmes