Twenty Quotes

For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

If they're traveling at the speed of light, their month is perhaps the equivalent of twenty of our years. So they're just buzzing around having a good old time, continuously looking.

I fell in love with Crawford because when she was twenty or twenty five, she would dance and talk and sing and do the things that Peppy's character needs to do.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list.

I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield.

We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.

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