Twenty Quotes

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

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

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

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

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.