Top 288 Twenty Quotes

I’ve done, on video, 150-pound dumbbells in each hand -I think it was, like, twenty two reps – on an incline.

Internet players have successfully addressed the all-in play from a mathematical perspective. For example, it’s fairly common to see a net player move all-in over the top from the big blind with a hand like K-Q when they have less than twenty big blinds remaining. And for good reason – it works!

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

I try to write very fast. I don’t revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It’s usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I’ll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.

I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

It was a strange feeling, filming a night scene in Selly Oak High Street with a television crew and famous actors in tow, when twenty years ago, at that time of night, I would‘ve been stumbling around in search of a kebab.

I went through a political shift when I was nineteen or twenty. I felt a certain way, and after the shift, I felt the opposite way. And never once did someone yelling at me or making me feel stupid do anything other than reinforce the convictions I had. What did get to me was people listening to me.

Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women‘s movement, we’re still talking about the same issues. We’re still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we’re still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that’s just frustrating.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

I have a specific routine before every match. I like to grip my rackets, because I feel that someone else won’t do it how I like them. But the biggest thing is that I don’t like to stress about my match all morning. Twenty minutes before, I’ll sit down and think about the game plan and warm up. And then I just play.

I don’t want to give too much of it away, because I haven‘t cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty years, and she, in an effort to protect herself faked her death and did a series of things regarding Dr. Loomis, who has died, because Michael Myers was after her.

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!

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

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

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.

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.

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.

‘The Fourth Hand’ was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I’m writing.

I read ‘The Hobbit‘ when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. I followed it up with ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ which I still reread from time to time, but of the lot of it, I prefer ‘The Hobbit.’

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?

It’s one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

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.

It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.

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.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

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

As someone who has researched and written about the Mexican cartels and the futile ‘war on drugs‘ for coming on twenty years, I know how tough a subject it is. Mind-bending, soul-warping, heartbreaking, it challenges your intellect, your beliefs, your faith in humanity and God.

Sixteen years on the road is long enough. Twenty years is unthinkable.

I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it’s all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.

I’m very excited about my new Spotify account, which gives me access to twenty gazillion songs any time, all the time. The day I opened my account, though, I sat there perplexed. How would I figure out what I wanted to hear?

I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.

If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America.

Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn’t.

When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. ‘Gunsmoke’ ran for over twenty years.

I have to re-write a lot. I couldn’t tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I’ve done at least twenty rewrites on each book.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for space and time, all framed by a mosaic of other apps, other work, other entertainment… so even when I really am paying attention to something on the web, there’s this peripheral haze.

I like Mourinho’s sessions: very dynamic, always with the ball. There are no really long sessions or talks. He understands what a footballer needs: twenty minutes, that’s it. No time to lose concentration.

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.

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

Kim and I have been friends for a long time. I’ve seen how things have played out behind the scenes. She’s come a long way and she’s a strong woman. The fact that she goes to Australia and twenty thousand people show up to a mall to see her is incredible. She’s become an around the world phenomenon.

Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.

Twenty or 30 years ago, certainly when my mother was my age, I’m sure she felt things were pretty over for her. You had your kids when you were 20. You brought them up. They left home. Then what do you do? While I feel genuinely optimistic. Well, I have no other choice.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

My father was an amazing guy. Twenty years in the Navy, great father.

My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

I didn’t know what the word ‘genre’ meant till I was twenty years old.

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

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

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.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.

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 went to acting school, and there were twenty other actors in my class who were exceptional. It’s hard for anybody to get work. When I was trying to get jobs, I felt a responsibility to be respectful of the opportunities and take challenging things that could be interesting both for me as an actor and for the audience.

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.

I was actually born in the front bedroom while my dad sat on the wall outside, feeling sick. Twenty minutes after my mother gave birth, she went downstairs and made my old man a cup of tea.

If you share an office next to a guy for twenty years, and you like him and you’re friends with him, it’s hard to tell him that you think that his whole idea of how the universe works is completely wrong.

Latin American Art is an operational term used to describe art actually made in the more than twenty countries that make up Latin America and that encompass Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can’t.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You’ve gone zero for seven-thousand.

Me and Twenty One Pilots would be wonderful.

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

I don’t want any more vicissitudes, I don’t want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

Working in sports for nearly the past twenty years, I have seen first-hand how gun violence affects athletes and their families.

The twenty minutes or more we spend inside the ring, that’s the fun part. It’s the rest of our lives that’s the real battle – the ruthless backstage politics, the constant traveling, the endless mental and physical aches and pains.

I remember being captivated by Jules Verne’s ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ when I read it as a kid.

There’s a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything’s against you; there’s no time, and even less money – you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it’s thrilling.

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

In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles – a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.

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

The goal for the top American isn’t the top twenty – it’s top ten, top five, number one in the world.

Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.

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

You should remember that I started as a fanboy many years ago; I saw ‘A New Hope’ more than twenty times in the theater. I saw ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ nearly thirty times.

In 1984, when ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ came out, not only was I twelve and couldn’t get into an R movie, but I lived twenty miles from a theater. So my first experience of it was on VHS.

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.

Although I’ve lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner‘s passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they’re not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

I’ve known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.

When I was a kid, I was pretty obsessed with ‘The Princess and the Pea.’ I’m still not sure why. Something about that image of twenty featherbeds and twenty mattresses? It’s not a story with a lot of psychological resonance so apparently kid me just wanted a magical trip to Ikea.

It’s been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we’ve all got things we’ve said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.

My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar to English editors, one of them said: ‘If she writes anything else, do let us know.’ Slowly, very slowly, the books began to sell and be noticed.

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.

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

I think something that is never really spoken about is the learning process of making records – I made my first record at twenty one and learned so much about record making from that before making ‘Bomb In A Birdcage’ a couple of years later.

I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.

‘Twenty One Pilots’ is a play by Arthur Miller, who also wrote ‘All My Sons.’ It’s about a guy who’s creating and developing parts for airplanes in war time, when it comes to his attention that some of these parts were faulty.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we’ll all be driving Iraqi cars.

Usually, I’ll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue – you can do so much with gesture. I’m still waiting to do a silent film.

For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn’t on a plane.

I don’t watch a lot of television. I try to watch all the good movies, but I’ve got about twenty of these television series that I should be watching. I haven’t seen ‘The Wire.’ I haven’t seen ‘Mad Men.’ I haven’t seen Kevin‘s thing. What’s that called? ‘House of Cards.’ I hear it’s wonderful.

As somebody who’s been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it’s astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

I’m a scientist – a geobiologist who’s been studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil for over twenty years. One day, I realized that I wanted, needed, to tell people – and not just other scientists – about my life in science.

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years’ time.

If you put twenty parents in a room together, they will all have different parenting styles due to how they were raised and how they choose to raise their children. To each their own!

About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.

I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

I feel great. I feel younger. And I don’t feel anything at all. I don’t know who knows, but right now I’m, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.

In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.

Twenty percent of students in Israel’s schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

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 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.

I haven’t killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.

Being at a World Cup is a sacrifice? Twenty days is a sacrifice? What about the people there working for the team, up at five every morning? That’s sacrifice. It’s not a sacrifice to play.

Brooklyn for twenty years, I’ve learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out.

Twenty years ago, you’d see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

I really do care what people think, and I revolved my whole career and all the twenty five years with Dream Theater… I ran that band and made decisions based on caring what the fans thought and wanted.

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

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

David Foster Wallace, in my opinion, is one of the greatest writers we’ve ever had, certainly in the last twenty years. His obvious dominance of the English language is partnered with honest moments and the most beautifully dark sensibility.

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

Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.

Growing up Latino is having a grandmother dancing when she’s cooking. It’s music all over the place. It’s endless Christmases. It’s, ah, twenty thousand cousins. It’s yummy food.

I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

If they’re working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let’s say, uh… only twenty people, or something like that, that’s still, when they work and do a scene, that’s still working in front of somebody.

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

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

Some of the Junior Boys’ textures may be borrowed from synthpop but, formally, their songs would be impossible without twenty years of the rave discontinuum. And where synthpop was self-consciously European, the Junior Boys have pioneered an electronic Pop that speaks in a Canadian accent.

When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research ‘Here Be Dragons,’ I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.

In twenty years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

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.

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It’s like that one year where you’re invited to twenty weddings.

When you’re hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you’ve got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what’s going on; it’s a really unique experience.

In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

I’ve always said – I’ve been making games for twenty years, and from the first day I got in this business, I’ve been saying, ‘All I have to do is sell one more copy than I have to, to get somebody to fund my next one.’

When I am on my deathbed, I don’t think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or my beautiful house. I am going to be thinking about an evening I spent with somebody when I was twenty where I felt that I was just absolutely connected to them.

I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

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!

Twenty years ago I brought young, unknown film maker Joe Wright with me to a private show of ‘Nil by Mouth.’ Gary Oldman asked me if he was any good. I said, ‘give it a few years and he’ll direct you in a film that will win you an Oscar.’

When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid – entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.

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

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

The North understand it better – they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits – surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

I always say horror films are great date movies. In the first twenty minutes, you’re going to end up in each other’s arms.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Colgate is the epitome of having it both ways. Academically, it ranks in the top twenty schools in the country, but it is also a famous party school.

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

The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world – a lot of them in Russia as you all know I’m sure.

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

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.

To presume that my greatest achievement is that I dated someone famous twenty years ago is completely sexist and anti-woman. It’s lazy, nasty journalism that makes me sad about our world.

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

I take inspiration from my life but only twenty per cent is real the rest is all made up.

It’s tempting to just write a comic called ‘Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks’ – maybe it would work, and I could just close down the ‘xkcd’ store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there’s no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.

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

When I was twenty years old, I had gum grafts put in.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

I’d rather have Ben Affleck feeling something than twenty minutes of punching CGI Zod. You want moments that resonate with your audience.

I still love ‘All Right Now,’ strangely enough. But then that’s probably because I didn’t play it for some twenty years.

I’ve lived in New York City for over twenty years now, and every single day is like a new adventure. At this point, there are many places I’d love to visit, but I can’t imagine living anywhere else on the planet.

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.

I always want to try to make films feel timeless, because one of my biggest pet peeves is that there’s a movie you love, and then you revisit it twenty years later, you show your kid or something, and it’s like, ‘Oh my God!’ with hairstyles and clothing and all that kind of stuff.

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.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don’t get over that until much later in life. I feel like I’m just starting to get over puberty – basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.

I’ve been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I’ve managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I’m very thankful.

After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.

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

You’re going to have twenty years as host of the ‘Today Show,’ and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you’re going to think you’re living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly frustrating and challenging.

I don’t know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don’t have any secrets apart from the fact that I’ve been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

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.

I have twenty years of training like a spartan behind me. It has caught up with me. My body is broken down. I’ve been worn out.

Until your mid-twenties, you’re still growing up mentally. It’s fair to say there’s a bigger difference between twenty and twenty-five than between twenty-five and forty in terms of who you are, how you relate to your work, and what you want out of it.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

I wanted to develop a hypnosis show that no-one had ever seen before, so I made it very topical and interesting. I’ve created a UFC fight night every night on stage, where I hypnotise twenty people into thinking they’re mad, crazed UFC fans, and the energy is unbelievable.

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

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I’m a wealthy man.

Here are the facts: my folks grew up so poor that, in the words of Redd Foxx, there were twenty o’s between the p and r.

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

I’m a collector, so I’ve got all kinds of sunglasses. I’d say I’ve got about a buck ten, buck twenty.

In an early version of the story, I thought Aang could shepherd a herd of twenty bison.

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

To me, e-sports is like poker. Twenty years ago, if someone told you that poker was going to be a massive spectator sport, you’d be like, ‘What are you talking about,’ right?

You forget things like how accessible the city is, I bought a bike – I haven’t had a bike in twenty years.

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

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years – first, the house that had been my grandmother’s since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

I’m never a person who likes anything I’ve done. It’s just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I’m still thinking, ‘You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

It’s eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There’s nothing else to it.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It’s not guessing, it’s not intuitive, it’s based on research – and we may be wrong.

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.

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You’d be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers – .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

Steichen bought my first photographs that I ever sold. He recognized the style from the school of Black Mountain. After that, it was about twenty years before I sold another photograph.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

I started running, and I hated it. Of course, everyone hates running for the first mile. If you’re running two miles or twenty miles, it always hurts. Now I live it. I look forward to it. It’s really good. It clears my head.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

Twenty is a hard time. It doesn’t matter what profession you’re in or how much experience you have, you’re always going to be haunted by this feeling of failing. It’s terrifying.

I love yoga, and I love circuit training where you can do five exercises, 15-20 reps of each exercise, and I do it five times in a row – it only takes twenty minutes, and you can do it anywhere. You feel instantly better.

Eventually I was saying to myself, maybe it would be better, instead of trying to become an American comedian in France, to mix those two styles and those two genres. Because of course it’s good to be efficient and sharp, and to have a joke every twenty seconds, but it can be a little cold and dry.

When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren’t. Truth was – and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years – what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.

Twenty years I’ve been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.

I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

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

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

I was in the 1993 Whitney Biennial and the 1994 ‘Black Male’ show at the Whitney, and I’ve never seen such vicious press. Twenty plus years later, critics who hated that Biennial have come to Jesus and decided it was a really important, seminal show that they misunderstood.

I heard about twenty, twenty-four bars of one track – one track – on ’13,’ and I listened to it, and I just didn’t like it at all; I just didn’t like it. And I have that right not to like it.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

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.

Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful – who wouldn’t be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the ‘Village Voice,’ and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.

What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

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.

When you’re 20 and you’re in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn’t apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that’s what you have to do to be an interesting actor.

I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult – that kind of made me nervous.

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.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

Even after I’d published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

I had had some successes in the ’90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn’t meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like – any person, any world, any place, any emotion. And they are so potent, so powerful, and at the same time, they’re marks on the page, and that’s all. There’s nothing else to them.

What makes you a rock star is what are you able to do when you get behind that microphone, when you put that guitar in your hands, when you wield those drumsticks, and when you raise your hand in front of twenty thousand people: do they respond? That’s being a rock star.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It’s seven days a week. It’s twenty hours a day.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

I love dialogue, but I’m also terrified of it. In all my movies, I’ve done my best to cut out as much dialogue as possible. I love the spaces in those silences. Even in ‘Pete’s Dragon,’ I was so happy that the first twenty minutes have about five or six lines of dialogue.

In terms of being able to adapt to any situation on any given night, in any given moment and that just comes with nearly twenty years of experience and paying attention to the guys that I’ve tried to emulate throughout my career.

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

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.

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

The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what’s in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time.

The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It’s the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It’s very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It’s in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before – I refer, of course, to Berthelot.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called ‘It Takes a Village.’ And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, ‘What the heck do you mean by that?’ This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone.

Lotta people don’t realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don’t get with anyone else. After you’re twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it’s different from the people you knew before.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I’d be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove… instead of twenty.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I’ve still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

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

My family did a lot of road trips across these continental United States when I was a kid. Twenty or so of us would caravan in four or five vehicles and hit every corner of the connected 48.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

The moment something happens to one you love, it’s twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

It’s a funny thing… I started touring at nine or ten years old, and for the first ten, fifteen, almost twenty years of your career, you’re the youngest guy on stage and the youngest guy in the room.

You can’t rent a car in Bermuda; about twenty miles long and two miles wide at its fattest, it deems itself too small for surplus traffic.

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

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’m not a comic. There’s twenty five percent of me that doesn’t trust people who identify as comics.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

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 or 30 years from now, I’m going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

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.

That’s what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn’t afford to run a car.

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance – In killing there is more than commentary.

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

A lack of resources may slow you down, but don’t let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!

‘The Immigrant Story,’ which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn’t think of how to tell it. Then twenty years after I started it, I found this one page and realized it was going to be the story. That’s the only way you get it sometimes.

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

I’ve worked on over twenty TV staffs, and nine out of ten male colleagues are wonderful, inclusive, and professional. Still, there’s usually one guy – the Tenth Man – who turns a fun job into a dental appointment.

I’m a hopeless romantic. It’s disgusting. It really is. I’ve seen ‘While You Were Sleeping‘, like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

‘Twenty Thousand Hertz’ investigates the role of audio professionals in our daily lives, from the engineering that ensures a car door closes with that reassuring finality to the Foley artists of Hollywood who synthesise the sounds of marine life using old kitchen equipment gathered at the pound shop.

I know a lot of actors who have said to me, ‘who’d have thought you could put a two-shot on screen for twenty minutes and people would be absolutely locked in, how does that work?’ Well it does work, when the story is great and you’ve got these fabulous twists and turns – so those are my favorite bits!

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, ‘The voice follows… the voice follows everything about you… who you are.’

When I was in seventh grade, I totally had a crush on a guy who was older than me, and he listened to alternative music. So he was into Days of the New and stuff like that, and more poppy stuff, too, like Matchbox Twenty.

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost – and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

If you do television, and it’s great, it’s the best job there is. Every week it’s another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it’s like theater too, and the audience, and it’s so short, like twenty minutes… It’s like a Haiku or something.

A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you’ve got to start castrating them, that’s pretty intimidating.

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

If you feel depressed, go and buy twenty books about depression. Learn about it; find out how it works.

I’ve gone to skin doctors and they’ll say to you, ‘We should remove this because it’s pre-cancerous,’ and I’ll say, ‘Explain pre-cancerous to me.’ I’ll listen for about twenty minutes and I’ll say excuse me, ‘Is pre-cancerous like pre-dead? So you’re saying it could turn into cancer but it’s not cancer?’