Quotes by Twenties Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth. Andre Dubus cutting twenties book For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy. Andre Dubus tonight useless twenties The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. Andre Malraux twenties spiritual firsts After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Robert Olen Butler, Oscar Hijuelos and others, have been most encouraging. Andrew Lam twenties stories years Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time. Andy Rooney twenties hurt love [from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Launderette: This is where you go to wash your clothes. You put the money into the slot and then you chuck your clothes into the washing machine and about six hours and twenty-five dollars later all your clothes have shrunk and turned pink. Fantastic value Andy Stanton clothes twenties mean Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. Angela Merkel twenties humanity challenges 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 lasts twenties years 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 twenties giving Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me. Anne Bronte twenties men world For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return. Anne Lamott twenties home years The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.' Annie Fellows Johnston twenties ambition heart One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation. Anthony de Mello hibernation twenties years Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated. Anthony James Leggett pieces twenties years 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 twenties writing world And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five. Aretha Franklin twenties hurt might The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head. Aristide Briand twenties heart men You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player. Arnold Palmer twenties moments player I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting. Arshile Gorky finishing twenties mind Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved. Arthur C. Clarke elderly twenties would-be «1234567891011»