Twenties Quotes - Page 35

• To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Years, Lovers, One Love

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• I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.

  Jean Kerr

  Lines, Pleasure, Minutes

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Morning, Eye

  Doris Lessing (2012). “This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

  Agnes Repplier

  Learning, Personality, Twelve

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• There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

  Agnes Repplier

  Years, Octopus, Letters

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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• Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.

  Kathleen Turner

  Courage, Spring, Lying

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• the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Cutting, Night, Weight

  Shirley MacLaine (1987). “It's all in the playing”, Bantam

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• Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

  Anna Quindlen

  Years, Lasts, Different

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• parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Purple, Parent

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• After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

  Cecil Beaton

  Rose, Bed, Asparagus

  Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”

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• I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.

  Lauren Bacall

  Missing, Hollywood, Six

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• there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

  Madame de Stael

  Sleep, Interest In Life, Four

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• It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Years, Ideas, Ruins

  Edward Gibbon (1826). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.433

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• Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became a major industry and the middle class bought radios to hear the ads and cars to get to the stores. ... But there is no question that the consumer culture had begun to crowd out all other cultural possibilities by the years following World War II.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Years, Class

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stupid, Athlete, Heart

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.5, Grove Press

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• Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Marriage, Thinking, Oil And Water

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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

  Cynthia Heimel

  Friends, Firsts, Century

  Cynthia Heimel (1995). “When Your Phone Doesn't Ring, It'll be Me”, p.180, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

  Mary Renault

  Hands, Silence, Sitting

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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• I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Ideas, Comforting

  Zane Grey, Max Brand, Owen Wister, James Fenimore Cooper, B. M. Bower (2017). “60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures & much more: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Night Horseman, The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail, The Hidden Children, The Law of the Land, Heart of the West, A Texas Cow-Boy, The Prairie…”, p.4057, e-artnow

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• For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

  Ali Liebegott

  Writing, Years, Ping Pong

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Children, Ambition, Towers

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• Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.

  Margaret Deland

  Christmas, Years, Soul

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• Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

  Roger Ascham

  Writing, Littles, Too Much

  Roger Ascham, James Upton, Thomas Master, Sir Henry Savile (1711). “The Schoolmaster: Or, A Plain and Perfect Way of Teaching Children to Underftand, Write, and Speak the Latin Tongue”, p.136

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• my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.

  Isabel Allende

  Truth, Husband, Thinking

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• in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Lonely, Book, Reading

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