Twenty Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Twenty
Twenty Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Twenty quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.
— Andy Behrman
Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights.
— Octavia E. Butler
Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.
— Samuel Johnson
cards. Twenty-four
— Damian Harper
I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.
— H.L. Mencken
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
— Thomas Jefferson
I feel like I'm twenty again.
— Elizabeth Horton-Newton
I thought I saw my entire future once, every moment of it, until the day of my death. I spent it in her arms. Then after twenty years, she left.
— Jessica Fortunato
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
Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Sam's just dealing with some issues. He recently came to the realization that he's a twenty-year-old virgin prude.
— T.J. Klune
Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.
— Brian Joyce
I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
— William Shakespeare
Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace
— Irvine Welsh
Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan ... The Ku Klux's gone ... It'll never come back.
— Harper Lee
Fucking Julia." I flung my long hair back over my shoulder, hiding the fresh bite. Twenty-eight years old with a hickie. Awesome.
— Eliza Lentzski
{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.
— Andrea Bouchaud
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
— Dalai Lama
Why is it that we only see short-term benefits? No one wants to invest in the future if it's more than twenty-four hours away,
— Evan Currie
I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.
— Five For Fighting
I was only twenty-five, much to young to die. Probably about the right age to become a complete hypochondriac, however.
— Kylie Scott
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
— George Bernard Shaw
Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.
— Karleen Koen
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
It seems unlikely that so much literature
could be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence? — Brenda Shaughnessy
could be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence? — Brenda Shaughnessy
Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby.
— A.B. Shepherd
Twenty talks, hundred thoughts, deep into the soul
Another soul penetrates. — Upasana Banerjee
Another soul penetrates. — Upasana Banerjee
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
— Bill Ayers
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
— Benjamin Franklin
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
— Robert Genn
It's arguable that Ayn Rand's finest achievement was crashing the economy twenty-five years after her death.
— Jarett Kobek
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
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
— Ambrose Bierce
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
— Moliere
Only twenty-six British universities have total endowments greater than the amount given annually to the Ohio State University football team. I
— Bill Bryson
I know you're almost forty, look almost thirty, think you're just over twenty and act as though you're barely ten.
— Andrzej Sapkowski
Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
— William Shakespeare
A siren is the sound of the twenty-first-century cavalry on the way.
— Rosamund Lupton
A Federal research project selected 1,600 children who had been abused or neglected and followed them for nearly twenty years.
— Gavin De Becker
I am nearly twenty-nine, so I pass you there; though I am but four feet, and not likely to grow any more, save sideways.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
In the Twenty-first century we are going to confront a climate shock worse than any mankind has ever experienced.
— Guillaume Faye
Give a Paris woman at bay four-and-twenty hours, and she will overthrow a ministry.
— Honore De Balzac
I don't feel like myself. But I do think I might pass for twenty-one. I'm under this makeup somewhere, I'm just not sure where.
— Nyrae Dawn
The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.
— Ingrid Bergman
Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.
— Oliver DeMille
How do you leave someone who has been such an important part of your life for twenty-eight years, someone you love more than life itself?
— K.S. Ruff
Instead, I pull out my wallet and hand Mrs. Carnes a twenty, which is the smallest I have, and she counts off the books.
— Jennifer Niven
Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.
— William J. Clinton
TWENTY YEARS AFTER the end of air travel, the caravans of the Traveling Symphony moved slowly under a white-hot sky.
— Emily St. John Mandel
it is not an exaggeration to state that any company designed for success in the twentieth century is doomed to failure in the twenty-first.
— David S. Rose
Bridget. Sleeping with a twenty-nine year old off Twitter on the second date is not 'rather like in Jane Austen's day'. (Talitha)
— Helen Fielding
By God, if I were twenty years younger," he thundered, "I'd drag you outside and horsewhip you!" Steven
— Linda Lael Miller
For people have four shadows; four politicians have twenty shadows or hundred or more! One person with many fake faces!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.
— Charles Comiskey
If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.
— Joe Flanigan
TWENTY I BATTLE MY JERK RELATIVE
— Rick Riordan
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
— Tania Bruguera
But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?
398 — Hilary Mantel
398 — Hilary Mantel
We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren't perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
— Jane Wiedlin
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
— Leo Tolstoy
Brita said, 'I read at home, I read in hotels, I take a book with me on a twenty-minute trip to the dentist. Then I read in the waiting room.
— Don DeLillo
Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
— Peter Benchley
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades
— Julia Child
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.
— George Eliot
Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law.
— Tim Weiner
Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.
— Alfred Hitchcock
It's ironic, really, isn't it? Nineteen-year age gap, and it's the old bloke who comes in his pants, and the twenty-something with performance issues.
— Jay Northcote
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
— Alice Paul
The illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.
— Shirley Maclaine
I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one ... Then I thought he was a genus.
— Mark Twain
Fear, delight, and being twenty were made for each other:
— Mark Helprin
Twenty somethings who aren't at least a little scared about their relationships are often the ones who are being the least thoughtful.
— Meg Jay
Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
— Oveta Culp Hobby
Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day.
— Gil Scott-Heron
Ruby's tenth birthday party. She wore a red dress and we skated and she told me we were halfway to twenty and someday we would go to France.
— Catherine Lacey
He smiled. "I guess somewhere in a corner of our hearts, we are always twenty.
— Martha Hall Kelly
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
— Ted Cruz
What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.
— William Shakespeare
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
— Henry A. Kissinger
There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds.
— Laurent Angliviel De La Beaumelle
You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.
— Joseph Pilates
What they don't tell you is that you're more confused at twenty than you were at seventeen
— Penelope Douglas
In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years of age; Claude Frollo, about thirty-six. One had grown up, the other had grown old.
— Victor Hugo
We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.
— Thomm Quackenbush
If you don't do crazy things when you're twenty, then you do them when you're sixty and then, it looks pathetic.
— Tionne Rogers