Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The first paid show was in Los Angeles at an art opening and I was paid maybe, I don't know, twenty five bucks?
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.
Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.
Going on twenty years, I've seen A-Rod getting better in different programs. He's one of the hardest-working guys there.
I still love 'All Right Now,' strangely enough. But then that's probably because I didn't play it for some twenty years.
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.
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.
If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
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.
Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home, getting jobs.
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!
At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.
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.
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.
Working in sports for nearly the past twenty years, I have seen first-hand how gun violence affects athletes and their families.
I was at a White House Correspondents' Dinner, and I met Bobby Jindal, and we had a perfectly lovely twenty minute conversation.
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.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.
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.
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.
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.
Twenty percent of my records, you'll find a loop, like two or three loops per album out of 13 or 15 songs. I'd rather keep it like that.
Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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.
I'd rather have Ben Affleck feeling something than twenty minutes of punching CGI Zod. You want moments that resonate with your audience.
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.
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 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.
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
Once we started racing, my dad had his own industrial cleaning business about twenty minutes from the house, so we kept our race cars there.
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.
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 Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
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.
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.
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.