#twenty

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#already #am #any #exhausted #had

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#cavalry #chance #deep #defended #entrenched

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#per #photography #second #times #truth

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#favorite #first #form #genre #i

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #chewed #fun #got #i

It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#been #eight #i #living #me

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#ideas #idiots #know #later #nature

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#being #billion #casinos #dollars #just

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.' ↗

— Betty Buckley

#everything #follows #i #me #one thing