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When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me. -- Scott Joplin
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. -- Edgar Degas
People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. -- Michael Palin
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. -- William James
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? -- Lord Byron
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. -- Lou Holtz
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles. -- Mary Antin
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. -- Grover Norquist
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. -- Paul Merton
Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us. -- Steve Buyer
Twenty-five percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user generated content and thirty-four percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands. -- Erik Qualman
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. -- William Osler
Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong. -- Howard Gardner
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum. -- Joseph Lancaster
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Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party. -- Joan Crawford
I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions. -- Harry Stack Sullivan
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years. -- Linus Pauling
I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation. -- Ted Danson
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. -- Thomas Carlyle
I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back. -- Carrie Ann Inaba
We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer. -- Natasha Trethewey
The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how to tell it. Then twenty years after I started it, I found this one page and realized it was going to be the story. That's the only way you get it sometimes. -- Grace Paley
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. -- Martin Scorsese
I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five. -- James Taylor
The Yankees have twenty-five heroes. -- Derek Jeter
Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram. -- Charles Dickens
Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature. -- Bridget Fonda
Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks. -- Peter Benchley
Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five. -- Jerry Hall
What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? -- Erich Segal
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. -- Jonathan Swift
There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five. -- William Holden
Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you. -- Robbie Coltraine
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs. -- Nadine Gordimer
Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming. -- Benjamin Franklin
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. -- Benjamin Franklin
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. -- Colleen McCullough
I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it. -- W. Somerset Maugham
My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers. -- Edward Abbey
Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man. -- Patrick Ness
Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent. -- Lee Strasberg
After twenty-five years of marriage, they could see each other clearly without having to look. -- Orson Scott Card
I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling. -- Joe Mantegna
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. -- George Bernard Shaw
In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out. -- James Reston
Twenty percent? What am I, your waiter? I got you five vampires, not a BLT. -- Richard Kadrey
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. -- Robert Genn
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. -- Janis Joplin
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. -- Richard Courant
For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies. -- Lauren DeStefano
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Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it. -- Indira Gandhi
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers. -- Whoopi Goldberg
I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions. -- Earl Weaver
Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma. -- Anagarika Dharmapala
Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life. -- Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. -- Yogi Berra
I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat. -- Milton Berle
You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees. -- Bill Lee
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. -- Alice James
I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business. -- Rob Paulsen
Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive! -- Maurice Duplessis
He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet. -- Suzanne Brockmann
And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five. -- Aretha Franklin
I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia. -- Debbie Reynolds
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. -- George Eliot
I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now. -- John Edensor Littlewood
Hey, God made us sexual creatures. If he wanted teenagers to wait that long, he would have made puberty start at twenty-five. -- Natasha Friend
Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio. -- George Will
The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop. -- George Vaillant
People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time. -- Paulo Coelho
Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen. -- Paul Reed Smith
Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke. -- Mindy Kaling
If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double. -- Robert Bork
This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it. -- Henny Youngman
Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five? -- Alfred the Great
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps. -- Kurt Voss
I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired. -- Arlo Guthrie
In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it. -- Philip Gibbs
There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five. -- Guy Pearce
there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives. -- Camille Paglia
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder. -- Walter Damrosch
It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event. -- Don DeLillo
Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents. -- W. C. Fields
I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly. -- David Sedaris
Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship. -- Alan Dershowitz
In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people. -- John Dos Passos
A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs. -- Robert Benchley
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. -- Alice Hoffman
As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years. -- Anthony Holden
I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother. -- Agnes Varda
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep -- A. P. Herbert
If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham). -- Henry Blackaby
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. -- Alan Patrick Herbert
There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune. -- Marie Dressler
What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me. -- Erich Segal
The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder. -- Charles Comiskey
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty. -- John Dryden
What we know about Osama Bin Laden is this: he's worth $300 million, he has five wives and twenty-six kids -- and he hates Americans for their "excessive" lifestyle. -- David Letterman
At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar. -- Eric Ries
We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name -- Mike Shinoda
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I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes. -- Faith Prince
What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me. -- Erich Segal
...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period. -- Al Gore
I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years. -- John Polkinghorne
The advantage my looks gave me was that I wasn't limited to just playing Indian roles when I was abroad, and I've been abroad for almost twenty-five years. -- Kabir Bedi
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
One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five. -- Jon Weisman
Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you're a successful professional woman. -- Stephie Davis

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