Turned 25 Quotes

#1. I started writing with intent to publish on January 1st, 1985, when, as my New Year's resolution, I resolved to finish a book before I turned 25. It's one of only a few New Year's resolutions I remember keeping - I finished that one with a couple weeks to spare.

Holly Lisle

#2. The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed.

Deval Patrick

#3. The best day of my life was when I turned 25. That's the day my car insurance went down. Yeah, boy, I saved $1,200 that day.

Stephen Jackson

#4. Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.

Kristen Bell

#5. I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband.

Katy Perry

#6. For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult.

Paris Hilton

#7. When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.

Jessie J.

#8. I started my career as a surgeon 25 years ago. But it turned out that I am not talented as a surgeon, so I decided to change my career. But I still feel that I am a doctor. So my goal, all my life, is to bring this stem-cell technology to the bedside.

Shinya Yamanaka

#9. I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked for my name on the buzzers. And because I know that sometimes I see things that aren't there, after dinner I called Information to ask if I was listed.(25)

Nicole Krauss

#10. Nice Girl Syndrome: Nice girls suffer from "the disease to please" - they put their needs behind everyone else's.

Beverly Engel

#11. I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

Angelique Kidjo

#12. But he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.

Diane Setterfield

#13. I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.

Billy Bob Thornton

#14. It's a strange kind of irony. The things that affect us most are the things we can't remember (from Swimming Upstream).

Ruth Mancini

#15. It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

Preston Sturges

#16. When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I'm a long distance runner.

Beth Grant

#17. The purest joys are available to all of us, and they're unrelated to status, recognition, or material desires.

Adam Braun

#18. The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

Ken Loach

#19. Nothing is lost that cannot be refound" she says in a voice infused with otherworldly authority "this is the Dark Goddess's promise to guide you back to your deepest self and soul. If you choose this Sarah, so will it be.

Karen Clark

#20. I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

Renny Harlin

#21. I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made ... This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.

Arthur C. Clarke

#22. I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.

Kim Basinger

#23. It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.

James Garner