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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

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay. — Max Beerbohm

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

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'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had. — Lauren Bacall

The middle of life has these cul-de-sac days. In your twenties you think, Surely I am going somewhere, and later
as in now
you think, Nope. — Leslie Daniels

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

I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way. — Jamie Cullum

Lying flat against the tile of the kitchen floor listening to someone else have sex is essentially my early twenties in a nutshell. — David Rakoff

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table. — Malcolm Gladwell

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three. — Chris Martin

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

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. — George Bernard Shaw

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become. — Adam Braun

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends? — John Selden

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. — Ian Somerhalder

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are. — Ethan Hawke

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. — Oscar Wilde

Your twenties are the worst part of your life that you don't actually know at the time is terrible. — Julie Klausner

For the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders. — Sam Altman

I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write. — Don Murray

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all. — Laurence Housman

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties. — Buzz Aldrin

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old. — George Sand

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. — Mark Twain

The first twenty years of my life were wasted ... I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other. — Rose Wilder Lane

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head. — Aristide Briand

The three agents were hard guys, the youngest of them in his twenties, a man whose IQ was so low I figured they had to water him twice a day. — Terry Hayes

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day. — Mahatma Gandhi

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. — Hannah Arendt

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries. — Josemaria Escriva

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion. — Pauline Kael

I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-twenties and the world was your oyster. — Katie Lowes

Like faint flowers in the diaphonous fabrics of the twenties: beautiful, trivial fabrics so flimsy they could not hope to last? — Kate Morton

Sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls. — Karin Slaughter

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. — Hugh Hefner

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost? — Soren Kierkegaard

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life. — Edward Gibbon

The guy was young, in his twenties. Looked like a Roman statue with pomade in his hair. — R.A. Niles

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven. — Robert Motherwell

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties. — Sarah Jessica Parker

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are. — George Michael

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Briefly, I was a journalist in my twenties, although not a very good one. I didn't quite grasp the whole concept of accuracy. — Jennifer Finney Boylan

The Yankees have twenty-five heroes. — Derek Jeter

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass

At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many. — Rudyard Kipling

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. — J. Paul Getty

But we didn't know anything in our twenties when we were first married. It was all just instinct and the patterns we'd grown up with. — Kent Haruf

My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business. — Nick Woodman

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

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

Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before. — Meredith Brooks

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast. — David Luiz

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 was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them. — Helen Vendler

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

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother. — Agnes Varda

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties. — Elliot Cowan

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time. — Andy Rooney

The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts. — Lily James

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty. — Moliere

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

Parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond. — Danielle Monsch

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on. — Debbie Reynolds

We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties. (1976 — Margaret Mead

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. — James Howard Kunstler

I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.' — Anthony Browne

The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that. — Nina Berberova

Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet. — Parker Posey

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. — Jean Kerr

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It's the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared. — Voltaire

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What would an A in your twenties even mean?" I wondered out aloud. "I don't know. That's the problem. I just feel like I shouldn't be less-than. — Meg Jay

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war. — Joseph Joffre

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. — Andre Malraux

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

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

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did. — Cynthia Ozick

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

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

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families. — Cynthia Heimel