Twenties Quotes - Page 30

Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century.

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.

In my twenties, my dad was paying half my rent and my ex boyfriend was paying the other half. I wasn't in a good place!

We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.

The Sexual Revolution offered us women this deal: you can particiapate in higher education and the labor market, as long as you agree to chemically neuter yourselves during your twenties, and endure expensive, humiliating, and possibly dangerous infertility treatment during your thirties and forties.

You know who you remind me of? The kid cop in Lethal Weapon 3. You know, the one who says, 'it's my twenty-first birthday today', and right away you know he's dead meat?

In my twenties, I was determined to change the world. In my thirties, I tried to transform the church. In my early forties, I discovered I was the problem.

It was official. I now wanted to murder a ghost, a notion I'd discarded as unlikely only twenty minutes before. (Cat)

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.

Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends?

What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

It’s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

I've never really been interested in replicating the record in live performance, because I'd just get bored. When I was young I used to go and see bands and, even if it was my favorite band, I'd get bored after twenty minutes.

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.