Quotes on the topic: Twenties


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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.


I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.


Our kids are in their twenties now, which is a wonderful time.


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.


I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.


I was just dying to get out of my twenties.


I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.


When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.


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


I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.


I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.


I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.


I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.


It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.


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


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


I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.


As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.


I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.