#twenty

The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

#fast #go #i #just #mean

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#another woman #fool #her #him #make

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#another woman #fool #her #him #make

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. ↗

— David Sedaris

#came #first #i #later #out

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking. ↗

— David Sedaris

#became #day #did #ever #every

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given. ↗

— Chuck Tanner

#gets #given #i #judged #manager

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary. ↗

— Allen Tate

#commentary #determined #gets #honor #i

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#learning #twenty #knowledge

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. ↗

— Will Durant

#last #little #most #much #six

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars. ↗

— Will Durst

#driving #iraqi #know #means #twenty