Twenties Quotes
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I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.
— Leslie Mann
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
— Adam Lambert
He's (Jack McKeon) been around baseball for twenty-plus years. He knows what it takes to be a manager. I hope he gets the chance.
— Ken Griffey Jr.
Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!
— Maurice Duplessis
Twenties, served as his judge in 1937 and even denounced a
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
— Lena Dunham
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.[The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.] — George Herbert
Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.
— Samuel Johnson
I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.
— Paul Theroux
The middle of life has these cul-de-sac days. In your twenties you think, Surely I am going somewhere, and lateras in now
you think, Nope. — Leslie Daniels
He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.
— Chanakya
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
— Honore De Balzac
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans.
— Pope Paul VI
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
— William Feather
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
— Dalai Lama
I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.
— Satchel Paige
Within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.
— M.M. Kaye
Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.
— Louis Rukeyser
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
— George Bernard Shaw
I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.
— Rashida Jones
Ronda, you know why a guy in his twenties goes after sixteen-year-old girls? Because they're dumb enough to believe his bullshit.
— Ronda Rousey
There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
— Ian Somerhalder
She can take Dad to that new-wave nightclub downtown, where all those strange couples in their twenties hang out.
— Francine Pascal
Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
— Camille Paglia
Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
— Cynthia Heimel
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.
— Charles W. Pickering
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
— Judith Guest
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
— Andre Malraux
If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.
— Joseph Joffre
You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.
— Alexander McQueen
Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.
— Andy Rooney
I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.
— Katy Perry
Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.
— Paul Reed Smith
Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.
— Sharon Horgan
The myth of the detached manipulator and compliant crowd has, since the Twenties, also been abundantly re-echoed by academic students of mass suasion.
— Edward L. Bernays
If my childhood, teens, and twenties were about wanting people to like me, now I want people to know me. So,
— Mindy Kaling
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
— Thomas Jefferson
What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.
— Doug Stanhope
I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge ...
— Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.
— Janine Di Giovanni
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
— Chaka Khan
I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.
— Sebastian Horsley
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.
— David Nicholls
I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.
— Yogi Berra
I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
— Stanley Kubrick
Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.
— Terence McKenna
If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?
— Jason Katims
I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.
— Patricia McConnell
But she has always felt that her thirties were going to be her best decade, and since she is still lingering in her twenties, there is no hurry.
— Steven Martin
I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.
— Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.
— Jillian Hervey
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.
— Anna Sewell
There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
— Laura Carmichael
We don't do all our growing up between birth and adolescence or even our twenties. If we're fortunate, we never stop.
— Diane Guerrero
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
— Michael Crichton
Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.
— William J. Clinton
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
— Moliere
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
— Bill Ayers
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
— Alexander Pope
I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one ... Then I thought he was a genus.
— Mark Twain
I'm just as normal as anybody else. I'm just probably in the same place as many people in their mid to late twenties are.
— Tristan Prettyman
I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story.
— Kathryn Harrison
I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades
— Julia Child
Wow. I'm twenty years old. Rene Descartes invented analytic geometry in his early twenties. Talk about pressure.
— Anna Kay Akana
Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before.
— Meredith Brooks
According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.
— Morey Amsterdam
I mentally attacked myself for most of my teens and twenties before I learned how to love myself in my thirties.
— Jenn Sadai
Truth be told, they had never been particularly passionate, not even in their early twenties. Zach had never considered himself a passionate man.
— Alessandra Hazard
Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
— Jules Renard
I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.
— Thelma Houston
At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
— Janis Joplin
To me, a yummy mummy is a mum in her twenties, like Donna Air.
— Trinny Woodall
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
— Barry Diller
No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.
— Rita Hayworth
Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.
— Malcolm X
America: Twenty million illegal aliens can't be wrong!
— Richard Jeni
