Twenties Quotes - Page 4

George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.

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

Being a single girl in New York it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars on something it’s the equivalent of the average American spending twenty dollars on something, right?

Sir, The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

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

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.

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

I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

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

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.

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

In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.