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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. -- Orson Welles
I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. -- Frank James
The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one. -- Nastassja Kinski
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. -- Samuel Johnson
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. -- Robert Indiana
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency. -- Harry S. Truman
I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one. -- Cynthia Voigt
You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking 'ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult' and it turns out to be the most incredible experience. -- Kathleen Robertson
For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one. -- Kaley Cuoco
When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know? -- Neil Strauss
At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement. -- Victoria Osteen
Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them. My grandmother and I had that. The first time my heart was broken was when my grandmother passed away. I was twenty-one. -- Cote de Pablo
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. -- George William Curtis
The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age. -- Lysander Spooner
Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixteen or twenty-one or wherever you're at, you get your lime when you get your lime, but if you're a part of hip hop and a child of hip hop, then you will always be a part of hip hop. -- Lil Mama
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be. -- Anne Lamott
At twenty every one is republican. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Towering is the confidence of twenty-one. -- Samuel Johnson
No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day. -- Rita Hayworth
Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty. -- William Shakespeare
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. -- Roger Ascham
One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue. -- John Wayne
Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality. -- Judith Malina
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. -- William Shakespeare
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little. -- Roger Ascham
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation. -- Anthony de Mello
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. -- Coco Chanel
Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. -- William Shakespeare
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONETHAT THIS IS HAPPENINGIN THE CENTURY TWENTY-ONE -- Widad Akrawi
Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use. -- Sri Chinmoy
It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam -- Gayle Forman
One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent. -- Dan Brown
You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one! -- Scott Lynch
At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around. -- Milton Berle
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder. -- Jim Bishop
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. -- Chinua Achebe
In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times. -- Esmeralda Santiago
Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one. -- Stephen King
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar. -- Henry IV of France
Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. -- Angela Merkel
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND TELL EVERYONE... THAT THIS IS HAPPENING... IN THE CENTURY TWENTY-ONE -- Widad Akrawi
One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians. -- Smedley Butler
there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep. -- Madame de Stael
Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly. -- Michael Pollan
They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each. -- C. S. Lewis
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty. -- James Howell
No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations. -- Thomas Jefferson
At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many. -- Rudyard Kipling
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A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one. -- Frank D. Gilroy
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. -- Andre Gide
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. -- Brigham Young
sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls. -- Karin Slaughter
A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest. -- Gayle Forman
I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities. -- Arthur Cravan
One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties. -- Charles A. Reich
I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism. -- Malcolm X
To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner. -- Shirley MacLaine
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better. -- Margaret Oliphant
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty. -- James Russell Lowell
Every decision you make is an important one, whether there are twenty thousand people working for you or just one. -- Donald Trump
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty. -- Elsa Maxwell
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even. -- Judith Guest
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time. -- Jay Leno
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. -- Maxim Gorky
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.] -- George Herbert
I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus. -- Mark Twain
If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes. -- Robbie Robertson
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. -- Ian Mcewan
Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit. -- Robin S
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twentyâ??one that everything afterward savors of antiâ??climax. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around. -- Robert Orben
Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them. -- Herman Melville
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people." -- Samantha Bee
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. -- Walter Scott
She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside. -- Kate Morton
Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty. -- Pablo Picasso
If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent. -- Amos Oz
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
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. -- Samantha Bee
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 recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them. -- Jerzy Kosinski
There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before. -- Prince Philip
That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man. -- Ray Romano
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale. -- Rufus Wainwright
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing. -- Andre Malraux
It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains. -- Jane Wiedlin
Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes. -- Greg Lake
Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved. -- Delphine de Girardin
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old. -- Paulo Coelho
Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started. -- John Fante
If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different. -- Jack White
People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being. -- Don DeLillo
People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being." -- Don DeLillo
Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head. -- Georges Clemenceau
In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. -- Jerry Saltz
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster. -- Salman Rushdie
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. -- L.M. Montgomery
My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one. -- Bob Hope
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day. -- James A. Baldwin
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. -- L.M. Montgomery
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. -- Helen Rowland
In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities. -- Jill Lepore
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered. -- George Eliot
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century. -- Ray Bradbury
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
FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one. -- Rodney Erickson
Twenty-two million cases of hepatitis B are spread every year because of the reuse of syringes. The WHO says one in two injections given is unsafe. -- Marc Koska
Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys. -- James M. Barrie
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago. -- Will Rogers
It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. -- William Shakespeare
One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels. -- Carmen Electra
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima. -- Kurt Vonnegut
What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines? -- Matthew Crawford

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