#twenty

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

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#favorite #first #form #genre #i

A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#blowing #cassette #different #different things #find

It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#been #eight #i #living #me

The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#really #shows #tv #twenty #were

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#before #chuckle #eighty #longer #make

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#being #billion #casinos #dollars #just

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

— Peter Benchley

#ago #knew #much #nobody #sharks

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.' ↗

— Betty Buckley

#everything #follows #i #me #one thing