Twenty Quotes

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

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

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

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.

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.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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 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.

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.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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.

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