Twenties Quotes - Page 25

• Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Break Through, Locks

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be at the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.

  Henry C. Link

  Children, People, Forever

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• Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

  Richard J. Foster

  Children, Air, Average

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• [P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

  Thomas Malthus

  Food, Mean, Science

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• It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Future, Issues, Firsts

  Robert D. Kaplan (2002). “The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War”, p.19, Vintage

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• I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

  Julia Child

  Four, Hours

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?" And I was like, "Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something." So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.

  Ben Stiller

  New York, Fun, Flirting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Talking, Years

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Eight, Two, Generations

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.473, e-artnow

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• By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taken, Light, Age

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• A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.152

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• I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

  Mark Twain

  Four, Deeds, Hours

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.860, Library of America

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• Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Self, Perception

  Mark Twain (1929). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.156, Jazzybee Verlag

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• From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

  Walter Scott

  First Love, Snow, Firsts

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

  Jay Leno

  Cities, Stores, Bigs

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• Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.

  Jay Leno

  Winning, Years, Iraq

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  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

  Lying, Tasks, Sensible

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.381

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• We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

  Agatha Christie

  Years, People, Three

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• The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.

  Warren Spahn

  Baseball, Winning, Games

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• I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Education, Past, Museums

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• It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.

  William Godwin

  Children, Inspire, Mind

  William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays”, p.78

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• I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in!

  Claude Monet

  Morning, Mistake, Stupid

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Practice, Workshops, Polish

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• It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Years, Painting, Louvre

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• everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

  Brenda Ueland

  Communication, Writing, Garden

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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