Quotes by Twenties One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense. Evgeny Morozov twenties intellectual thinking I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took. Eva Longoria life-lesson twenties thinking I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it. F. Paul Wilson band twenties numbers It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me. Fannie Flagg twenties children thinking Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself. Fareed Zakaria twenties writing america This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years. Ferdinand Foch armistice twenties years At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon. F. Scott Fitzgerald twenties moon morning She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven. F. Scott Fitzgerald lovely twenties people Twenty days ago my physio asked me if I was if I never think that I can win a Grand Slam or be in final of Grand Slam, and I said no. Flavia Pennetta twenties winning thinking The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her. Florence King vanity twenties lust Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs. Fran Lebowitz room-service eggs twenties When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one? Francesco Clemente crazy twenties half It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. Francis Crick textbooks four twenties It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something. Fran Lebowitz twenties war years 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 twenties college years 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 twenties two I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. Frank James twenties perfect years What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy? Freddie Mercury crazy twenties years Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties - French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time. Frederick Rolfe fickle twenties war It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. Freeman Dyson physics twenties firsts «89101112131415161718»
