Best twenties & turns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.”

Years Turns Boys Ten Difficulty Twenties Nine Nine Years Nineteen Immaturity

Author:John Boyne

“I've been in the sun most of my life. I've gone to skin doctors and they'll say to you, 'We should remove this because it's pre-cancerous,' and I'll say, 'Explain pre-cancerous to me.' I'll listen for about twenty minutes and I'll say excuse me, 'Is pre-cancerous like pre-dead? So you're saying it could turn into cancer but it's not cancer?'”

Should Turns Sun Gone Minutes Doctors Skins Twenties Cancer Excuse Remove Excuse Me

Author:George Hamilton

“You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult and it turns out to be the most incredible experience.”

Thinking Sometimes Whole Turns Difficult One Day Twenties Incredibles Twenty One Ugh

Author:Kathleen Robertson

“Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.”

Knows Age Turns Girl Five Twenties Cake Shelves Desirable Fifth Twenty Five Stale

Book:The Gargoyle

Source: The Gargoyle

“Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.”

Knows World Years Doe Two Facts Seems Earth Moving Time Turns Reading Walks Our Lives Minutes Reader Ten Crosses Twenties Passing Passings Novelists Thirty Thirty Years

Author:Marcel Proust

“The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.”

Thinking Looks Sometimes States Turns Girl Women Marriage Four Twenties Remains Eight Wit Hills Thirty Rejoice Entering Repent Summit Eighteen Plunge Seventeen Wedlock

Author:Samuel Richardson

“None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.”

Knows Want Made Bigs Care Film Turns Deals Half Millions Risk Cost Waste Twenties Dollars Profit Budgets Thirty Million Dollars No One Cares

Author:Clint Eastwood

“George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?”

Has Beens Shows Age Guy Turns Twenties Thirty

Author:Johnny Carson

“Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.”

Thinking Trying Might Turns Twenties Bills Dollars Pants Dollar Bills

Author:Peter Milligan

“I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.”

Thinking Littles Hard Turns Easier Lessons Twenties Life Lesson Wrong Turn

Author:Eva Longoria

“In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Doe Helping Would Be Turns Father Term Five Nice Doors Twenties Thirty Skeptical Digging Haircuts Good Father Nice Person Bad Haircuts

Author:Rashida Jones

“Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open, compassionate conversations with loved ones around topics we perceive to be hard - like death or addiction? A lot will change.”

Ifs Hard America Turns Three Car Conversation Percent Twenties Addiction Perceive Meals What If Compassionate Loved Ones Topics

Author:Angel Grant

“At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.”

People Firsts Turns Century Percent Thirds Twenties Income Poorest

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.”

Ifs Film Turns Strange Twenties Independent Manage Accomplishment Bottles Chips Thrilling Bucks Glue Independent Film Sense Of Accomplishment

Author:Eric Stoltz

“For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.”

“When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.”

“Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me," I told them. "One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pretty bossy, frankly. Their eyes widened. "Really?" said one. No you idiot," I said in disgust. "I don't know how it works. I just know it has an unfailing ability to point me in the opposite direction of a bunch of boneheads.”

Knows Want Wells Said Eye Turns Left Ability Talking Know How Opposites Twenties Miles Bunch Idiot Disgusting Ninety Exit Bossy Gps

Author:James Patterson

“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

“Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.”

“I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.”

Men Young Turns Universe Five Twenties Rate Young Man Coincidence Twenty Five Center Of The Universe Insurance Rate

Book:Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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