#twenty

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#events #i #i think #instead #more

If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody. ↗

— Ray Walston

#like #only #people #say #scene

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. ↗

— Orson Welles

#many #permanent #solid #things #twenty-one

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. ↗

— Orville Wright

#already #been #even #first #flight

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. ↗

— Steven Wright

#department store #people #power #store #trapped

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#already #am #any #exhausted #had

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. ↗

— Brigham Young

#any #community #man #menace #twenty

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#cavalry #chance #deep #defended #entrenched

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#per #photography #second #times #truth

If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

#i #move #old #really #still