Twenties Quotes - Page 11

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)

Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

I've probably got the most loyal hardcore fans in the music business. You know, I can sit around, go fishing, do ten shows a year, fifteen, none, twenty, and it's just fantastic. Because they know I shoot straight and I don't talk bull.

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.

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

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.

I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you're having them.

[To lose twenty pounds] is not even about how much I lose and how fast, it's so much about being healthy.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

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.