Twenty Quotes

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The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time… — Kate Voegele
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio. — Douglas Kennedy
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… — Rick Riordan
I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six… — Lennie James
Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life,… — Saint Ignatius
Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the… — Sydney Smith
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of… — Alan Bennett
Twenty million people are starving [in Russia]. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed! — Herbert Hoover
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are… — Erma Bombeck
I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a… — Humphrey Bogart
Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty — James Thurber
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. — Whitey Ford
Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past, Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late — Nancy Mitford
You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty laborers, and not so much to drink either. — George Bernard Shaw
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with… — Lord Chesterfield
And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers. — Bible
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows — William Shakespeare
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself. — William Shakespeare
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I… — Josh Billings
At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; at thirty, tame, if ever; at forty, wise; at fifty, rich; at sixty, good or never — Aldous Huxley
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building — Oscar Wilde
Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe… — Denis Leary
Punk rock seems like my childhood, the glorious, very exciting naivete of rock n' roll. Stenguns and guitars seem very idealistic when you're twenty. — Unknown Author
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution. — Hank Aaron

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