Twenty Quotes

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

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.

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

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

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.