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“I think that a lot of teenagers think they got it all down-pat. Especially when they first move out and they're on their own for the first time. Oh this is easy, this is breezy. Then all of a sudden it hits you in your mid-twenties that maybe you don't know how to do your taxes still. There's all kinds of things and you start calling your parents up again.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Kind Stills Moving Easy Parent Know How Calling Taxes First Time Twenties All Kinds Teenager Breezy

Author:Katy Perry

“In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still. Now Africa is modernizing. In the next twenty years, Africa is modernizing economically, and one of two things is going to happen. Either Africa will be just like the rest of the world and it's say goodbye to wildlife. Or, we can learn from the mistakes made in the rest of the world.”

World Years Made Stills Two Happens Next Mistake Twenties Two Things Goodbye Astonishing Wildlife Saying Goodbye Remnants

Author:Patrick Bergin

“I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.”

People Knows Stills Facts Jobs Moving Challenges College Mom Dad Involved Twenties Expected Moving Forward Graduates Apartment Mom And Dad

Author:Anna Quindlen

“It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.”

Thinking Want Stills War Twenties Teens

Author:Stephen Farrell

“I did [Michael Cimino] first movie, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," and I remember I was still in my twenties and very nervous, we're shooting up in Montana, and I'm thinking, "What the hell am I doing here? I don't feel anything like this part.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Stills Remember Hell Twenties Nervous Shooting Montana Thunderbolts Shooting Up

Author:Jeff Bridges

“When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a lot. Then, when I was nineteen I wrote a couple hundred pages of another novel, which wasn't very good either. I was still determined to be a writer. And since I was a writer, and here I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.”

Writing Trying Years Littles Stills Book Play Seems Novel Poet Couple Pages Hundred Twenties Seven Very Good Determined Nine Novelists Fifteen Nine Years Nineteen Funny Book

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“A great song is something that you go back to in twenty years and it's still so influential to you.”

Years Stills Song Twenties Influential

Author:Georgia Nott

“One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris.”

Thinking Way Wells Said Stills Girl Study Special Mets One Day Married India Twenties Asking London Indian Twenty One Sari

Author:Indira Gandhi

“In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and then doing the gig and going nuts and then afterwards the party and all the stuff that goes with it. And then that party continues through your twenties and thirties. I'm now 51, and it's still very much in my blood, but I'm really hard pushed... the gig is the party for me now.”

Stills Hard Whole Stuff Waiting Party Blood Twenties Nuts Gigs Old Days

Author:James Taylor

“My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.”

“I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.”

Thinking Stills Wanted Concerned Twenties Majority

Author:Adam Lambert

“People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.”

People Years Believe Stills Hard Five Crazy Madness Twenties Five Years Twenty Five Hard To Believe Python

Author:Michael Palin

“I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.”

Years Stills Real Funny Stars Wife Humorous Years Ago Twenties Witty Eight Movie Movie Star Keeping It Real

Author:Will Rogers

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”

“She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.”

Feels Children Stills Would Be Eye Age Felt Careers Wise Feet Hair Husband Twenties Thirty Gray Far Away Her Eyes Crow Knowledgeable Clueless Gray Hair

Book:PS, I Love You: A Novel

Source: PS, I Love You: A Novel

“He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.”

Inspirational Years Stills Realizing Known Learning Twenties Breaths Remembered Thirty Another Year Still Hoping

Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

“O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.”

“Harry was speeding toward the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was going to be sick-he hit the field on all fours-coughed-and something gold fell into his hand. 'I've got the snitch!' he shouted, waving it above his head, and the game ended in complete confusion. 'He didn't catch it, he nearly swalloed it,' Flint was still howling twenty minutes later, but it made no difference-Harry hadn't broken any rules and Lee Jordan was still happily shouting the results-Gryffindor had won by 170 points to 60.”

Made Stills Hands Games Differences Results Saws Minutes Fields Broken Mouths Gold Sick Twenties Crowds Confusion Jordan Shouting Speeding Fours Gryffindor Snitch

Author:J. K. Rowling

“That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen her more than me--everything from a baby up to twenty years old. Sometimes I wonder if all that might still be inside it. Got to make an impression on a thing, reflecting the same person every day.”

Ifs Years Persons Said Stills Sometimes Whole Might Hate Wonder Growing Up Growing Baby Letting Go Daughter I Hate Twenties Mirrors Impression My Daughter Reflecting Sometimes I Wonder

Author:David Wroblewski

“... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces”

Littles Stills Ends Matter Dog Honor Decided Twenties Hot Convinced Golden Gentleman Pace Costumes New Orleans Pirate Hot Dog Golden Days

Book:A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.' "She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.”

People Stills Faces Waiting Rooms Hair Right Now Kissing Twenties Related Foreheads Kiss Me Wisps Waiting Rooms

Author:Gayle Forman

“Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.”

Years Stills Two Might Nations Memories Race Class Happened Thousand Ten Years Ago Twenties Obligation Nonsense Thousand Years Absurdity No Memory

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do the waves know of the massed, hot, still sands of the desert just twenty , no , ten feet beyond the scalloped edge ? And what does the beach knows of depths, the cold, the currents just there, where-do you see it? - Where the water turns a deeper blue.”

Knows World Doe Stills Turns Waiting Water White Feet Cold Ten Twenties Hot Blue Depth Wave Edges Currents Deeper Desert Beach Sand Collapse Whips Caress Foam Whip It

Author:Ahdaf Soueif

“Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?”

Source: The Things They Carried

“The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)”

“Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that he had experienced it. “Yes?” “What are you doing twenty feet in the air?” “Looking for a book.” “Would you mind very much returning to the earth?” “What are you thinking, climbing to the rafters in your condition?” “I am not an invalid, Simon, I still have use of all my extremes.” “You do indeed—particularly your extreme ability to try my patience—I believe, however, that you mean extremities.”

Thinking Trying Mind Believe Mean Stills Book Use Earth Found I Believe Ability Emotion Air Feet Conditions Husband Lows Twenties Calm Extremes Enjoyed Climbing Spectrum Extremity Rafters

Author:Sarah MacLean

“The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look closely, the twenty-four hour day is framed into a moment; the still-life of the jerky amphetamine world. That woman-a pieta. Those men, rough angels with an unknown message. The children holding hands, spanning time. And in every still-life, there is a story, the story that tells you everything you need to know.”

Knows Men World Needs Looks Children Stills Moments Stories Hands Lying Hours Dark Existence Four Messages Angel Twenties Narrative Rough Lit Framed Holding Hands Still Life Amphetamines

Book:Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“Nellie Gomez awoke to a splitting headache. Worse, she was still hungry. "Where's my croissant?" she demanded of the person leaning over her. "Dear child," came a strangely familiar voice. "Don't 'dear child' me!" she snapped. The twenty-two-year-old punk rocker ran black-polished fingernails through black-and-orange-dyed hair, which did nothing to soothe the pounding behind her black-shaded eyes. "Give me my croissant or I'll–" It was then that she suddenly realized she was threatening the venerable Alistair Oh. "Alistair, what are you doing here?”

Source: The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot

“Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. “You’re my sacred ones,” I told the books. “No one but me still cares about you. But I’m going to keep you with me forever. And one day I’ll make you important again.” I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.”

Long Stills Important Book Care Used Forever Generations Feet Wall Terrible One Day Twenties Sacred Smell Volume New Generation Bookshelves Misplaced Calumny Kindling

Book:Super Sad True Love Story

Source: Super Sad True Love Story

“Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke.”

Stills I Can Fantasy Five Exercise Jokes Tough Twenties Revenge Twenty Five Pull Ups

Book:Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)

“She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest and breathed its pungent dog breath in her face. On those days she called in sick to the IT shop where, most days, she untangled tangled networks for a song. On those days she pulled down the shades and ran dark for twelve or twenty-four or seventy-two hours, however long it took for the black dog to go on home to its dark master.”

Long Stills Two Home Faces Song Black Hours Dark Four Dog Masters Goes On Sick Weight Twenties Breaths Ran Crush Shops Chests Shade Twelve Seventies Bad Day Tangled

Author:Lev Grossman

“Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.”

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

“I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.”

Years Stills Listening Married Twenties Being Married Recommendations

Author:Larry McMurtry

“If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.”

Ifs Want Years Persons Stills Twenties Love Someone If You Really Love Someone

Author:Meg Cabot

“Do people in the twenty-first century still dance?" My heart beat thundered in my ears, far louder than the slow music. "Um," I said, barely able to swallow, my throat had gone so dry. "Sometimes." "How about now?" he asked. And then his strong arms were encircling my waist, his breath soft against my cheek as he gently whispered my name: "Susannah. Susannah...”

People Firsts Heart Said Stills Sometimes Able Names Strong Gone Century Arms My Heart Beats Ears Twenties Breaths Dry Throat Cheeks Heart Beat Strong Arms

Author:Meg Cabot

“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.”

Ifs Knows Stills Twenties Seven Teenager Seventeen

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days, of the hat in his hands, white toothed, peaceful, laughing, languid, stunning Alexander, had he been left far behind? Well, Tatiana supposed that was only right. For Alexander believed his Tatiana of once was gone, too. The swimming child Tatiana of the Luga, of the Neva, of the River Kama. Perhaps on the surface they were still in their twenties, but their hearts were old.”

Firsts Wells Heart Children Stills Hands Left White Behinds Laughing Gone Summer Garden Rivers Twenties Surface Peaceful Hats Swimming Stunning Summer Garden

Author:Paullina Simons

“Teenagers don't know what love is. They have mixed-up ideas. They go for a drive and the boy runs out of gas and they smooch a little and the girl says she loves him. That isn't love. Love is when you are married twenty-five years, smooching in your living room and he runs out of gas and she says she still loves him. That's love.”

Knows Years Littles Stills Ideas Running Girl Love Is Rooms Boys Five Married Twenties Teenager Five Years Gas Living Room Twenty Five Best Love

Author:Norm Crosby

“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.”

“While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities, still willing to invest in art and poetry's own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.”

“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.”

Men Years May Stills Care Fun Forget Five Twenties Take Care Five Years Ducks Stairs Twenty Five Cellars Furnaces

Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley

Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley

“The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.”

Years Mind Believe Stills Ideas Belief Energy Powerful Taken Five Twenties Five Years Twenty Five Atomic Energy

Author:Nikola Tesla

“She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.”

Giving Years Stills Two Certain Next Felt Consciousness Blood Danger Regret Approach Twenties Aging Nine Satisfied Handsome Apprehension

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!”

World Stills Behinds Military Six Sitting Army Twenties Division Strongest Allies Concrete Steel Valiant Sitting Still

Author:J. F. C. Fuller

“A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?""Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?"How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, "I'm drinking it, aren't I?"Love still needs expression between those who share it.”

Ifs Love Needs Years Stills Courses Opinion Wife Share Havens Expression Husband Married Twenties Asking Wine Drinking Vices Satisfied Vice Versa Vintage Do You Love Me

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.”

Stills Ideas Wisdom Seems Universe Numbers Secret Power Five Century Keys Civilization Europe Relation Twenties Mathematics Blessed Mathematical Heritage Cursed Twenty Five

Author:Arthur Koestler

“I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.”

Ifs Stills Strong White Hollywood Twenties Pounds Drivers Tails Truck Overweight Truck Driver

Author:Gene Kelly

“Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.”

Thinking Way Years Stills Facts Today Language Powerful Creative Five Design Majors Twenties Remains Factors Five Years Unusual Flexible Twenty Five Hackers Lisp

Author:Eric S. Raymond

“Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality.”

Stills Done Havens Twenties Immortality Twenty One

Author:Judith Malina

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