#twenty

Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five. ↗

— Jerry Hall

#i #looked #texas #twenty-five #well

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years. ↗

— Monty Hall

#i #overnight #overnight success #success #took

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#before #chuckle #eighty #longer #make

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#bloom #cleaning #could #county #draw

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ↗

— Robert Frost

#another woman #boy #fool #her #him

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then. ↗

— Diana Ross

#get #i #instead #look #looking

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#ago #be the first #california #crimes #donald

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. ↗

— Will Durant

#centuries #earth #events #hours #informed

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

#become #biology #century #part #physics