Home / Topics / Twenties Quotes

Twenties Quotes

Browse 2625 quotes about Twenties.

Twenties Quotes

“You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.”

Writing May Has Beens Three Lines One Day Hundred Twenties Good Work One More Day

Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.”

Ifs Lines Pleasure Minutes Twenties Packages

Book:Penny Candy

Source: Penny Candy

“If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.”

Ifs Years Wells Kind Self Enough School Past Lines Risk Taught Ego Clothes High School Twenties Prepared Lifetime Torture Be Kind Biographies Preservation Flattering Self Preservation Edited

Author:Sharyn McCrumb

“One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.”

Want Years Art Lines Wall Years Ago Twenties Cruelty Oppression Torture Detachment Glorify One Line

Book:Your Native Land, Your Life

Source: Your Native Land, Your Life

“People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.”

“Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.”

Heart Littles Eye Lines White Five Conditions Subjects Hair Months Twenties Punishment Witness Suspense Fixed Sufficient Brown Grey Convicts Bleach Brown Hair

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.”

Children I Can Two Helping Problem Reality Social Lines Poor Wonder Poverty Five Building Percent Weak Twenties Our Children Safety Painful Solve Cycles Jail Twenty Five Interrupted Safety Net

Author:Peter Yarrow

“The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.”

Lines Mark Twenties West Average Inches Convenience Annuals Rainfall

Author:Bernard DeVoto

“If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.”

Ifs Wells Doe Play Use Artist Realizing Lines Careers Five Army Twenties Salvation Aging Jazz Average Fifty Twenty Five Salvation Army

Author:Oscar Peterson

“When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.”

Thinking Way Long House Lines Numbers Married Twenties Long Way Being Married

Author:Hamilton Leithauser

“I go wading into the fire fit, but the conservative movement - jeez. Look at Milo [Yiannopoulos]. He's in his twenties. He's flamboyantly gay. We're nowhere near the conservative movement here. Ideologically he's pure. Ideologically he's brave, he's right down the line.”

Looks Lines Fire Movement Fit Gay Pure Twenties Brave Conservative

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.”

People Years Looks Able Faces Lines Twenties

Book:The House at Riverton

Source: The House at Riverton

“I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's hands . . . They admit that the inventors of writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but they maintain that this application is accidental and that books in themselves mean nothing. This opinion - we shall see - is not altogether false.”

Knows Writing Mean Book Dream Hands Natural Lines Opinion Five Twenties Seeking Symbols Vain Compare Regions Customs Application Librarian Inventor Chaotic Twenty Five Superstitious

Book:Ficciones

Source: Ficciones

“…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.”

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.”

“And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen.”

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance.”

Ifs Giving Should May Doe Enough Facts Seems Science Lines Levels Results Failing Lows Draws Standards Hundred Twenties Experiments Fifty Significance Statistics Cents Odds Scientific Facts

Author:Ronald Fisher

“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."”

People Stills Certain Women Lines Forget Let Me Twenties Seven Lovely Faded Lovely Woman

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald