Twenty Quotes

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.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

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.

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.

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

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

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.