“A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one that had gone on for twenty-seven years was a huge and rambling mansion. There were bound to be crannies and storage spaces, most of them dusty and abandoned, some containing a few unpleasant relics you would just as soon you hadn't found. But that was no biggie. You either threw those relics out or took them to Goodwill.” YearsFirstsFoundHouseSpaceRoomsGoneSeeingHugeTwentiesConstantSevenBoundsAbandonedConstructionSeven YearsGoodwillCompletionMansionsCottagesContainingStorageRelicsRamblingBiggieFirst Year MarriageStorage Space Book:A Good Marriage Source: A Good Marriage
“When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.” ShowsFilmCultureNumbersGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionHugePeriodsTwentiesMythologyBunchTelevision ShowsRoaringUnderworldRoaring Twenties Author:Martin Scorsese
“Suppose it was demonstrated that one out of twenty alcoholics could learn to become a moderate social drinker. The experienced clinician would answer, 'Even if true, act as if it were false, for you will never identify that one in twenty, and in the attempt five in twenty will be ruined.' Investors should forsake the search for such tiny needles in huge haystacks.” IfsShouldSocialAnswersFiveHugeTwentiesInvestingTinyInvestorsRuinedModeratesAlcoholicsNeedlesForsakeDrinkersClinicians Author:Paul Samuelson
“I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.” ThinkingKnowsMadeTogetherMiddleHugeCoupleTwentiesImpact Author:Shirley MacLaine
“Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homocide victims were killed by husbands or lovers. Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren't any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble.” IfsThinkingMenEnoughRiskHugeLoversHusbandPercentFemaleTwentiesVictimEightGambleBeing A Woman Book:Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me Source: Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me
“I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.” IfsYearsGirlEnergyBrainHugeDecidedThirdsTwentiesSecondsDeafSeventeenSeventeen Years Old Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.” ThinkingMayHoursFourHugeConflictTwentiesSpotsUsaRescueGlobesUnited States Of AmericaDisputesSquad Book:SOUL ON ICE Source: SOUL ON ICE
“It has been estimated that of the world Jew population of approximately fifteen millions, no fewer than five million are in the United States. Twenty-five percent of the inhabitants of New York are Jews. During the Great War we bought off this huge American Jewish public by the promise of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, held by Ludendorff to be the master stroke of Allied propaganda as it enabled us not only to appeal to Jews in America but to Jews in Germany as well.” WorldWellsHas BeensWarStatesHomeAmericaUnitedMillionsUnited StatesFiveNew YorkMastersHugePromisePercentTwentiesPopulationJewAppealsPropagandaGermanyFewerFifteenStrokesPalestineTwenty FiveGreat WarJewish National Author:Sidney Robertson Cowell