#twenty

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. ↗

— Brigham Young

#any #community #man #menace #twenty

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

If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

#i #move #old #really #still

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#count #fifty #girl #marry #only

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

A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#blowing #cassette #different #different things #find

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'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