It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.
Philip Levine

Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield.
Geoff Downes

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
Mason Cooley

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.
Phil Ochs

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
Belinda Carlisle

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey

Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.
Joseph Jarman

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.
Ernst Mach

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin Franklin

Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.
Yuan T. Lee

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
Kenzaburo Oe

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
James Anthony Froude

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark Twain

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.
Gregory Corso

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
Margaret Oliphant

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.
John James Audubon