Twenties Quotes - Page 29

• The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Missing, Criticism

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• I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mistake, Made, Five

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• A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I remembered everything.I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig-tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a grey skull.Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them.But they were part of me. They were my landscape

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Baby, Wall

  The Bell Jar ch. 20 (1963)

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• Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Faith, Commitment, Four

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• As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.

  Huston Smith

  Years, Two, Religion

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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

  Victor Hugo

  Spring, Heart, Winter

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• Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Home, Agreement, United States

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• We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later.

  Geoff Downes

  Thinking, Years, Shining

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• This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

  Anthony Trollope

  Writing, World, Four

  Anthony Trollope (1859). “The Bertrams: A Novel”, p.313

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• With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

  Frank Sinatra

  Holiday, Years, Musical

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

  Robert Motherwell

  Book, Years, Seven

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• 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

  Shade, Nine, Thirty

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.257, Delphi Classics

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• Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

  Janis Joplin

  Years, Sound, Should

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• Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.

  Brené Brown

  Thinking, Shields, Facts

  "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, August 27, 2010.

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• I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.

  Kelly Preston

  Climbing, Three, Noses

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• Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

  Ray Bradbury

  College, Eight, Age

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• I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Believe, Simple

  "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers". Book by Anne Lamott, November 13, 2012.

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• Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million dollars from now. It's right now. And you just have to take a chance.

  Jillian Michaels

  Dollars, Pounds, Chance

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• Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Violence, Firsts, Century

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• Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand.

  Mat Hoffman

  Tattoo, Cycling, People

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• Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Art, Twilight

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• I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was thrilling to listen to. When you heard him speak, you felt that you were privy to such a rare mind. Even in small-talk, he spoke with perfect economy of language. His shoots with me were very collaborative and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to photograph him over the course of twenty years.

  Kate Simon

  Taken, Opportunity, Years

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• That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.

  Bill Klem

  Hands, Voice, Guy

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• It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.

  Diane Wood

  Time, Long, Focus

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• In study at the Mayo Clinic covering fifty consecutive young women with hypothyroidism, twenty-eight has menstrual disturbances. Abnormally profuse menses was a common disturbance; frequent bleeding between periods was another; in some cases, both problems were present. Thyroid therapy relived the disturbances.

  Broda Otto Barnes

  Eight, Pms, Covering

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