Twentyfive Quotes
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Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men’s auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.
jim butcher— Ghost Story, Narration, Chapter 9 (2011)
Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.
— Quoted in R H Ives Gammell The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas (1961).
A nation, to remain healthy, should make war every twenty-five years.
— 1934 Quoted in Denis Mack-Smith Mussolini's Roman Empire (1976), p.63.
L'esprit et le ge nie perdent vingt-cinq pour cent de leur valeur, en de b arquant en Angleterre. The mind and genius lose twenty-five percent of their value on entry into England.
— 1830 Le Rouge et le noir, bk.2, ch.7.
They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!
lea delaria— Box Lunch
In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.
john dos passos— "Grosz Comes to America," Esquire, 1936
Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!
Maurice Duplessis— Bill 43, Québec Legislative Assembly, January 14, 1954
"Make more babies" because in "(t)wenty-five years ... the majority of the population is Hispanic."
john gibson—
By the way, I sold another story, same company. “Wolfshead” twentyfive pages $ 40.00. After reading it, I’m not altogether sure I wasnt off my noodler when I wrote it.
robert e. howard— From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (October 9, 1925)
I'm horrified to find, as I look at these diaries of twenty-five years ago or more, that I don't remember who the people were. "Bill and Tony were constantly in and out. We went to La Jolla" — or something. I haven't the bluest idea who they were!
christopher isherwood— Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 4th series, p. 239, interview with W.I. Scobie (1973)
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: "Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you." … The twenty-five percent is for error.
linus pauling— Pauling's reply to an audience question about his ethical system, following his lecture circa 1961 at Monterey Peninsula College, in Monterey, California.
In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
james reston— International Herald Tribune (18 November 1991)
I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.
cornel west— Speech in San Francisco: Democracy Matters (1 October 2004)
Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween , possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. ... [W]ith the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. ... In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended - Directed By Joe Chappelle.
james berardinelli— Review of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Sagrada Familia...is the greatest piece of creative architecture in the last twenty-five years. It is spirit symbolised in stone!
antonio gaudí— Louis Sullivan. From Thomas E. Tallmadge, "The Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family," in Western Architect, XXXI (March 1922).
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
a. p. herbert— "Which Is the Liberal Party?"
I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.
steve jobs— Interview in the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996)
Ludwig offers a unique integrative perspective which encompasses the clinical wisdom accrued through twenty-five years of experience as an alcoholism researcher and therapist....The book serves as an excellent primer for clinicians and recovering persons on a practical and multiperspective approach to alcoholism treatment.
arnold m. ludwig— Contemporary Psychology, review of Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind.
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
william osler— Vol. I, Ch. 24 : "The Fixed Period'"
In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.
camille paglia— p. vii (Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992))
This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.
muhammad reza pahlavi— As quoted in Gérard de Villiers (1975), The Imperial Shah: An Informal Biography, page 284The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebrations of Persian monarchy, taking place on October 12–16, 1971, were estimated to cost 100 million dollars.
In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.
— "Grosz Comes to America," Esquire, 1936
One of the profoundest religious changes effected by the synagogue almost immediately upon its establishment twenty-five centuries ago was to bring communion with God directly and easily to the the individual worshiper.
— Nathan Ausubel, The Book of Jewish Knowledge (1964), p.433
Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.
— Eric S. Raymond, in Open Sources on MIT's first OS, ITS [ ]
75 million years ago, Xenu was an evil galactic dictator who had some problem with billions of his people, so he loaded them into spaceships that looked exactly like DC-8s. Even worse, he charged them twenty-five dollars if they had extra luggage. Then, Xenu brought them here to Earth where he stacked their bodies around volcanoes, which he then blew up with Hydrogen bombs.
— Stephen Colbert (March 4, 2009) The Colbert Report, see also "Stephen Becomes Scientology's Galactic Overlord".
It is the things which Ausonius reveals unconsciously that win him liking, not those which he sets out to celebrate with a kind of innocent pomp: not the chair of rhetoric at twenty-five, nor the imperial tutorship in his fifties, nor the consulship at sixty-nine, but that he loved and taught rhetoric all his life, and kept his simplicity.
— Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 291.
All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon— Du principe Fédératif [Principle of Federation] (1863)
