Twenties Quotes - Page 36

• Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
  [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage,
  Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Work, Heart, Anvils

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• For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Substitutes

  Pauline Kael (1991). “Movie love: complete reviews 1988-1991”, E P Dutton

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• To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

  Elsa Maxwell

  New York, Party, People

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• You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

  Julian Fellowes

  Years, People, Ems

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• Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

  Stella Benson

  Age, Three, Share

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Mother, Years, Age

  Ingrid Bergman, Alan Burgess (1980). “Ingrid Bergman: My Story”, Michael Joseph

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• At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.

  Helen McCloy

  Past, Choices, Decision

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• From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.

  Rachel

  Queens, Writing, Dust

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• Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!

  Laura Schlessinger

  Taken, Boys, Self

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• Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.

  Margaret Halsey

  Humorous, Four, Way

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Drawing, Youth, Theory

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• Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

  Anna Sewell

  Horse, Giving, Minutes

  Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.171, OUP Oxford

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• I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Coffee, Years, Cups

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• Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religion, Breakfast, Way

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• What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Dog, Italian, Philadelphia

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• Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Time, Four, Too Much

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.

  Johannes Gutenberg

  Conquer The World, Giving, Soldier

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• At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Thirty, Forty

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.38, tredition

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• No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with all the colors of the rainbow thrown in for good measure. When twenty or thirty of us meet, it is as hard to find three or four with the same complexion as it would be catch greased lightning in a bottle.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Color, White, Rainbow

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• It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Travel, Believe, Home

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• Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

  Angela Merkel

  Challenges, Humanity, Climate

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• When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Horse, Yards, Noses

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• It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough.

  Dorothy West

  Lying, People, Giving

  Dorothy West (1996). “The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences”, Anchor

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• exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Psychology, Might, Firsts

  Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.144, St. Martin's Press

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• Being twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Heart, Years, Wild Imagination

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