Twenty Two Quotes

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

Anthony Bourdain

Travel, Sleep, Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the most curiously depressing circumstances. For months I'd been stuck, unable to take one step in any new direction. The world kept moving on; I alone was at a standstill. In the autumn, everything took on a desolate cast, the colors swiftly fading before my eyes. The sunlight, the smell of the grass, the faintest patter of rain, everything got on my nerves.

Haruki Murakami

Depressing, Moving, Rain

"A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

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Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial.

Maggie Stiefvater

Blue, Ideas, Two

Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

Dashiell Hammett

Two, Together, Twenties

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Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Ignorance, Two, Twenties

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Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

Karen Marie Moning

Lying, Sheep, Years

Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.244, Delacorte Press

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Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it again, counting. Thirty-two times it had fallen Slayer Society up. Twenty-two times it was down.

Heather Brewer

Two, Together, Twenties

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I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.

Paulo Coelho

Love You, Years, Two

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Nellie Gomez awoke to a splitting headache. Worse, she was still hungry. "Where's my croissant?" she demanded of the person leaning over her. "Dear child," came a strangely familiar voice. "Don't 'dear child' me!" she snapped. The twenty-two-year-old punk rocker ran black-polished fingernails through black-and-orange-dyed hair, which did nothing to soothe the pounding behind her black-shaded eyes. "Give me my croissant or I'll–" It was then that she suddenly realized she was threatening the venerable Alistair Oh. "Alistair, what are you doing here?

Gordon Korman

Children, Eye, Hair

Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.52, Scholastic Inc.

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Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Malcolm Gladwell

Giving Up, Hard Work, Persistence

"Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

Anthony Bourdain

Travel, Sleep, Two

Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.56, A&C Black

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I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

Rainbow Rowell

Thinking, Two, Twenties

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And, now, come to this spot Where the spotlight is hot And you'll see in the spotlight A Juggling Jott Who can juggle some stuff You might think he could not... Such as twenty-two question marks, Which is a lot. Also forty-four commas And, also, one dot! That's the kind of Circus McGurkus I've got!

Dr. Seuss

Thinking, Two, Twenties

Dr. Seuss (1956). “If I Ran the Circus”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago.

John Green

Years, Two, Heaven

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I love to watch my daughter. At twenty-two months, that little soul is developing at a rate I will never understand. She's kind of taught me that growth and expansion are a person's natural state and inclination.

Daniel Gillies

Daughter, Two, Soul

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Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, "The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005

Stephen Colbert

Ohio, Two, People

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I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.

Karen Marie Moning

Country, Years, Two Year Olds

Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.18, Delacorte Press

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I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Tom Stoppard

Music, Mean, Two

Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization, Umpires, Two

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On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.

David Sedaris

Christmas, Adversity, Two

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Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.

Stephen King

Years, Here I Am, Two

Stephen King (2005). “The Colorado Kid”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

A. A. Milne

Math, Two, Piglet

A. A. Milne (1992). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, Puffin

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As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Mitch Albom

Life, Positive, Learning

"Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.

Aldous Huxley

Real, Two, Long

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A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

Jonathan Stroud

Eight, Two, Twenties

Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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