Top 1200 Twenty-Five Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Twenty-five years has been a good run. Boy bands like Boyzone don't get to last this long, usually.

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.

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

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).

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.

For years I taught in universities and high schools for classes of 30 or 35 students. Now I teach in very large venues with thousands of people in the audience. I used to have notes. Now I just let go and let God. I just allow it to come, and I didn't do that before. I never even used the word "God" for twenty or twenty-five years. Now it just rolls out of my mouth all the time.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

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.

He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

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.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

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?

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.

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.

Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

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.

One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack on the way poets were neglected. Yet there were about two thousand people present, and he was being paid five hundred dollars for delivering this attack.

I'm not a comic. There's twenty five percent of me that doesn't trust people who identify as comics.

People only live for forty or fifty years so if you were married for twenty or twenty-five of those then that was it. Now people live for eighty years and if your married for fifty or sixty of those you start to get on each other's nerves.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.

You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.

This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.

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

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?" And I was like, "Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something." So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.

I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

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.

Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said I'd been influenced. I listed twenty-five. It included five playwrights whose work I didn't know, so I read these five playwrights and indeed now I suppose I can say I have been influenced by them. The problem is that the people who write these articles find the inevitable similarities of people writing in the same generation, in the same century, and on the same planet, and they put them together in a group.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.

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.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

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.

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

Twenty percent? What am I, your waiter? I got you five vampires, not a BLT.

I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.

In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.

Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you're online, go ahead and IM them back if you want. Otherwise, wait twenty-two to twenty-three hours between email contacts for the first few messages. Don't send messages while most people are sleeping, even if you're wide-awake. Shoot for business hours or just after dinnertime.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.

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.

Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

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.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

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.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.