#twenty

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

If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody. ↗

— Ray Walston

#like #only #people #say #scene

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

It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then. ↗

— Peter Hain

#been #changed #fascinating #got #hair

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

The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#really #shows #tv #twenty #were

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