#twenty

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#again #books #feel #friends #happened

Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin. ↗

— Suzanne Somers

#always #around #betrayed #does #except

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#batters #business #figure #figures #games

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

— William James

#gained #ideas #lives #men #only

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#brains #establishment #got #haven #heart

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

#conception #cross #having #lack #living

For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing. ↗

— Meg Jay

#psychology #twentysomethings #nature

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#between #couple #first #five #go

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#back #box #boxes #business #cardboard

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#god #i #like #mccartney #paul