Quotes about Twenties

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. Votes: 6

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties. Votes: 6

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me. Votes: 6

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems. Votes: 6

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether. Votes: 6

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. Votes: 6

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. Votes: 4

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties. Votes: 4

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published Votes: 4

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. Votes: 4

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties. Votes: 4

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. Votes: 4

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty. Votes: 4

Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love. Votes: 4

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical. Votes: 4

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted. Votes: 4

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff. Votes: 4

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head. Votes: 4

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. Votes: 4

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists. Votes: 4

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies. Votes: 4

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. Votes: 4

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through. Votes: 4

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties. Votes: 4

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. Votes: 4

In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that's one reason you should try different relationships. I've had good and bad ones, but I took away things from them that helped me become who I am. Votes: 4

There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper. Votes: 4

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. Votes: 4

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner. Votes: 3

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed. Votes: 3

The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts. Votes: 3

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind. Votes: 3

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. Votes: 3

In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots. Votes: 3

When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period. Votes: 3

I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown. Votes: 3

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever. Votes: 2

When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties. Votes: 2

I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my twenties and thirties. No Botox for me. Votes: 2

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family. Votes: 2

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. Votes: 2

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. Votes: 2

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that. Votes: 2

In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait! Votes: 2

You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times. Votes: 2

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate. Votes: 2

I'm not a stereotypically beautiful woman, and I'm so happy that I'm not. I've seen those ladies - the need to be attractive at all times is ghastly. Also, in your twenties, if you are beautiful, everything comes to you, so you never need to develop a personality. I never had that problem. Votes: 2

It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness. Votes: 2

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself. Votes: 2

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift. Votes: 2

There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement. Votes: 2

In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms. Votes: 2

I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out. Votes: 2

In your twenties, everything makes you crazy. Votes: 0

I started going gray in my early twenties. Votes: 0

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker. Votes: 0

My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties. Votes: 0

I was just dying to get out of my twenties. Votes: 0

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof. Votes: 0

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties. Votes: 0

We're in our twenties and we don't know anything and it's awesome. Votes: 0

Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties. Votes: 0

Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties. Votes: 0

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough. Votes: 0

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are. Votes: 0

Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known Votes: 0

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient. Votes: 0

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive. Votes: 0

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties. Votes: 0

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident. Votes: 0

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents. Votes: 0

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult. Votes: 0

Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into. Votes: 0

I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story. Votes: 0

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity. Votes: 0

I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties. Votes: 0

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. Votes: 0

Being a single girl in New York it's what you should be doing in your twenties! Votes: 0

We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties. (1976 Votes: 0

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties. Votes: 0

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them. Votes: 0

I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling. Votes: 0

You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties. Votes: 0

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time. Votes: 0

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties. Votes: 0

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere. Votes: 0

I had sex with a couple guys but it wasn't a baseball team. I saved that for my twenties. Votes: 0

I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now. Votes: 0

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are. Votes: 0

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost? Votes: 0

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become. Votes: 0

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on. Votes: 0

If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right. Votes: 0

In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole. Votes: 0

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born. Votes: 0

I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever. Votes: 0

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties. Votes: 0

My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well. Votes: 0

I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerdy. Votes: 0

If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties. Votes: 0

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties. Votes: 0

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going. Votes: 0

I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.' Votes: 0

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives. Votes: 0

parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond. Votes: 0

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done. Votes: 0

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again. Votes: 0

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties. Votes: 0

I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties. Votes: 0

Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly. Votes: 0

TV evangelists say they don't favor any particular denomination, but I think we've all seen their eyes light up at tens and twenties. Votes: 0

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin. Votes: 0

What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him. Votes: 0

Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion. Votes: 0

I'm just as normal as anybody else. I'm just probably in the same place as many people in their mid to late twenties are. Votes: 0

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite. Votes: 0

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties. Votes: 0

I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way. Votes: 0

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married. Votes: 0

I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do. Votes: 0

I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich. Votes: 0

In my twenties, my dad was paying half my rent and my ex boyfriend was paying the other half. I wasn't in a good place! Votes: 0

We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles. Votes: 0

My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business. Votes: 0

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. Votes: 0

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all. Votes: 0

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features. Votes: 0

I was always searching. I became a Buddhist in my twenties when I came to Los Angeles. I met a group of people who I really loved. Votes: 0

The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years. Votes: 0

I played pretty well in my twenties, don't get me wrong! But my consistency is better [in my thirties], my momentum is better, my wins are quicker. Votes: 0

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did. Votes: 0

There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood. Votes: 0

Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties. Votes: 0

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that. Votes: 0

I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good. Votes: 0

Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time. Votes: 0

Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet. Votes: 0

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones. Votes: 0

I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it. Votes: 0

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties. Votes: 0

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones Votes: 0

I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-twenties and the world was your oyster. Votes: 0

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties. Votes: 0

In my twenties, I was determined to change the world. In my thirties, I tried to transform the church. In my early forties, I discovered I was the problem. Votes: 0

I was wrong.Now that I think about it, if I had said those words to a now-ex back in my twenties, I would probably be married right now. Votes: 0

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties. Votes: 0

I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane. Votes: 0

Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It does seem like between the groundbreaking writing of Edmund White's generation and the work of younger gay writers in their twenties and thirties there is a kind of gap. Votes: 0

I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now. Votes: 0

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them. Votes: 0

We leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years Votes: 0

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life. Votes: 0

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately. Votes: 0

When I look back, if I'd played something differently, it might not have gone the way it did. So I don't feel like going back to my twenties and changing anything. Votes: 0

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write. Votes: 0

I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium. Votes: 0

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way. Votes: 0

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident. Votes: 0

I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her. Votes: 0

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born. Votes: 0

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door. Votes: 0

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me. Votes: 0

I read all of the books by Tolkien, including 'The Hobbit,' when I was in my twenties, and his deep love of nature and all things green resonates deeply with me. Votes: 0

I've never really socialized; I've always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that. Votes: 0

Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don't regret; that was what I needed to do to get some things out of my system. Votes: 0

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties. Votes: 0

My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China. Votes: 0

When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties. Votes: 0

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids. Votes: 0

I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now. Votes: 0

... when your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse. Votes: 0

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Yes. Yes. No. One time in high school. Three times in my twenties. Rocks no salt. Yes. Four. Never. And how dare you! I will take no further questions. Votes: 0

I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot. Votes: 0

The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament. Votes: 0

I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties. You're not burnt out, you're going to stick around and most of the best cyclists are in their 30s. Votes: 0

When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married. Votes: 0

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties. Votes: 0

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine. Votes: 0

In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do. Votes: 0

I try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties. Votes: 0

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues. Votes: 0

When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete. Votes: 0

I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties. Votes: 0

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't. Votes: 0

What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a much older person. But that's such a demographic, a socio-economic, cultural, class thing. Votes: 0

I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties. Votes: 0

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails; I let it go off the rails. Votes: 0

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails. Votes: 0