Twenties Quotes - Page 29

• Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000.

  William Wegman

  Photography, Years, Names

  Joan Simon, William Wegman (2006). “William Wegman: Funney/strange”, p.210, Yale University Press

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• In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass., to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again.

  William Wegman

  Men, Self, Years

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• Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.

  Trevanian

  Fall, Artist, Errors

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• It's hard for me to believe that it [World Trade Center Building 7] came down by itself... Twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us.

  Andrew Napolitano

  Believe, Government, Years

  "Fox host Napolitano is a 9-11 Truther: 'It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us'" by Eric Hananoki, www.mediamatters.org. November 24, 2010.

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• I hate dates. I sit at home all day, and I don't fart once. I go on a date and I've got twenty in the bank straight away.

  Carl Barron

  Hate, Home, Goes On

  "Carl Barron Live". Comedy, 2003.

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• 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.

  Amor Towles

  Decision, Vision, Cards

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.323, Penguin

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• Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

  Brigid Lowry

  Towns, Miles, Left Behind

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• If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

  Robbie Robertson

  Play, Dancer, Fancy

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• In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Player, Two

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• I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.

  George Eliot

  Real, Grief, Thinking

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.145

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• Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

  George Eliot

  Love, Summer, Girl

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.113, 谷月社

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• The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.

  Tacitus

  Names, Cassius, Brutus

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• It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.

  Willa Cather

  Mad, Littles, Vain

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press

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• We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  College, Years, Fickle

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir”, p.6, Monsoon Books

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• To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Years, Views, London

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.63, Cooper Square Press

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• The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Sex, Clerks, Four

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.237, Penguin

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• Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dark, Civilization, Hydrogen Bomb

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.

  Cornel West

  Successful, Years, Differences

  "Democracy Matters". Speech in San Francisco, October 01, 2004.

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• I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Book, Class, Library

  "The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics". Book by Hubert Humphrey, 1976.

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• I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

  John Dryden

  Women, Wrinkles, Looks

  'The Maiden Queen' (1668) act 3, sc. 1

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• It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Player, Two

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• Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

  William Osler

  Art, Moving, Men

  Address at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 22 Feb. 1905

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• Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.]

  Will Cuppy

  Country, Europe, Snakes

  "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Years, Firsts, Environment

  Diary entry, 1927.

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• I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

  Gloria Estefan

  Girl, Baby, Maturity

  "Live In Miami: The Evolution Tour". Documentary, Music, 1996.

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