Top 1200 Late Twenties Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.

The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.

I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned to drive a car if my parents hadn't overruled my lack of motivation and virtually forced me to embrace both forms of transportation. I suspect I was happy to sit in a corner with a book.

I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now.

I've enjoyed all my times, teens, twenties, thirties, forties, and now I'm enjoying my fifties.

Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.

I was married when I was in my early twenties, and my former husband, an absolutely lovely man, didn't get the writing thing.

We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.

I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'

It's never too late to get fit; it's never too late to feel good and confident and change the way you eat and train. Just give it a go and momentum will take you the rest of the way.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

It's very rare that a person, especially in his twenties and thirties, can do more than one business and do it well.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.

I like being a guy that's bridging the gap between all different forms of racing, especially now that I'm in the Dirt Late Model stuff, too. I think that's helped bridge the gap between sprint car fans and Late Models.

But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

In late 1999, I was walking down Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks with my late producing partner Sharyn Lane after a day of editing 'Sordid Lives.' We passed the Psychic Book Store and decided to go in and get a reading. We weren't believers, but what the hell? We needed a sign.

In my twenties, I wrote a lot of romantic stories in which I always lost the girl.

I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.

Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.

As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.

In my twenties, I was virulently opposed to anyone commenting on my appearance, lest it come at the expense of my ability.

Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

All through my twenties, I lived in very walkable cities - Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York.

By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.

When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're going to be in life.

I do not run late. Growing up on a farm, you're just not late when it's time to do chores or go to work. I grew up Mennonite, and so that work ethic and timeliness was just ingrained in me from a very young age.

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

I suddenly became an unprofessional tantrum queen but people tend to forget that we associate these terms only with actresses. So many times, actors report late to the sets or don't even show up. But most women will tell you how we don't even have the luxury to be five minutes late.

At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.

I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.

We need to hold onto that so that people can be told in the right way that they're going through these things [like tumors] early instead of discovering them late. Discovering important health news too late happens far too much.

I had my mid-life crisis at 29. I've got my thirties and forties into the back end of my twenties.

Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was also a reason for late-term abortions that was tough. I did a book on dwarfs and know a lot of them, and that was a shock. That's a decision I could not feel comfortable with.

My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.

I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

People are salaried for the work they do, not the specific hours they sit at their desks. When you ding salaried employees for showing up five minutes late even though they routinely stay late and put in time on the weekend, you send the message that policies take precedence over performance.

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

No one could reach Amy Winehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate?

Being a single girl in New York... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.

Pause and remember - It is never too late to begin again, to forgive someone, to have a dream, to meet someone or to love yourself. It is never too late!

Cycling is such an endurance sport. I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties.

I romanticized about it in my twenties, but I don't think I would have enjoyed being a spy. I worry too much.