Twenty Quotations | Page 2

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.

Holla, ye pampered jades of Asia! / What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day?

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over.

I write at home, from around 9.30 to midday, when I stop for lunch, then begin again at one, until roughly 3.30. Then I start again around seven and do a couple of hours. My writing environment is a quiet, book-filled study. Or, rather, it has been for the last twenty years.

It adds more choices for residents to have. Twenty years ago people would have to go into nursing homes and now they can go into assisted living.

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.

It is already difficult to realize that a mere twenty years ago poverty was taken almost for granted over most of the earth's surface.

I think the president of the United States spoke for twenty minutes here yesterday. I would ask your indulgence to let me finish my statement.

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.

Over twenty years, we expect to generate about $80 million or more in sales tax revenue.

Over the twenty two years that I have lived here, I have watched forestry operations open the canopy destroying moist forest understorey,

Over the past twenty years, innovative entrepreneurs have been working to build a new class of companies that strive to do good as well as doing well. The success of companies like Whole Foods has demonstrated that ideas that once seemed on the margins are now becoming mainstream -- as consumers strive to make better choices, seek to do business with companies they respect, and buy products and services that promote a more balanced and sustainable lifestyle.

Our next twenty days are our rest days. We get to fine-tune all the little things we have maybe done wrong and concentrate on the those we've done right.

People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think: the same design skills I used in those days apply equally when I'm creating modern videogames.

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

I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out west and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'Looking for gold, ya durn fool.' He'd say, 'Your pick is gold.' And I'd say, 'well, that was easy.' Good joke, huh?

It allowed them to sue. If you have workers comp, they give you twenty bucks and a bus ride.

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 memory of it

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

We don't think if you're going to bring thousands of users up that you're not going to want support. If you're a small company with ten to twenty users, have fun with it. But when you look to scale, you need support.

We've gotten on a good roll here. Twenty wins is 20 wins. I think we're the best team in Kentucky. I'd definitely be upset if we don't make the (NCAA) Tournament.

We followed every standard protocol for hurricanes, but the flooding was just astronomical. Twenty to 50 percent of the population (of New Orleans) had not evacuated. That's going to take a while to ramp up the rescue operations and support operations. It just doesn't happen in the blink of an eye.

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

We are concerned about the current trend and know that things need to change now. Or, only the wealthy will be able to attend college in twenty years which is the exact time that some students now may have children who wish to pursue education.

To us it's critically important that we send a message that the disclosure law cannot be evaded. Twenty five thousand dollars is still a significant fine for the state board of elections.

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

We only had about twenty pitches of video. That didn't tell us a heck of a lot. He did a good job of mixing his pitches, using both sides of the plate. He's got a pretty live fastball, too, so you just have to tip your hat to him.

When a defendant makes a request for a lawyer, all questioning must stop until a lawyer is on the scene. The fact that Shaw made two requests for a lawyer and was questioned for twenty minutes indicates a violation of his rights, assuming that is what really happened. My understanding is that Miranda does not legitimize a confession obtained by questioning a defendant who has repeatedly asked for a lawyer.

We think we will have to adjust the current estimates downward. We as motorists now spend a lot more time in congestion than we did 20 years ago. The type of vehicles that we drive are different. Twenty years ago, air conditioning and power windows were options. Today, they are standard and ... have a detrimental effect on fuel economy.

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

Why is it that gas that's already been bought and paid for and is already in South Dakota before the disaster stuck is costing twenty five, even forty cents more than the day before.

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.

We watched a pattern develop. Twenty years ago, seniors went to the beach after the prom and then to someone's house for breakfast. From that, it's turned into a weekend-long orgy that every year has become incrementally more excessive.

Well I don't think it's a good one. Let me put this in context for you, we had over the last twenty years we've welcomed nearly 100,000 Americans, some young, some old, to take part in this event. Every single one has done so safely.

Twenty years. They've crept up on us. They've gone, just like that.

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 later, then, little, if anything, is left of the historic opportunities Gorbachev opened up for his country and the world.

Twenty years later all parties realize the need to develop efficient and environmentally sound oil shale technologies at a measured pace so that volatility doesn't happen again.

Twenty Years, ... It's big, blazing guitars, big drums, lots of melodies, all done in three minutes or less. Just like the thousands of cover songs we've played up till now.

Twenty years hence a curve or a symbol will be called as Pearson's, and nothing more remembered of the toil of the years.

Twenty years from now, I see myself being at the helm of a multimedia conglomerate, a powerful company with a solid film division, a budding music division, a solid television division, ... And I want to get into advertising as well.

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

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

Twenty years ago when Live AID or Farm Aid played, that was a big deal. That was something very different. Now these things seem to be the response to big very bad disastrous events.

Twenty years ago there was a stigma about being laid off, now it's the norm.

Twenty years ago, pneumatic cylinders controlled virtually every axis of a case packer. New case packers today are often all servo-controlled. We are taking old case packers and adding two-axis pushers and servo-controlled elevators to provide significantly more speed.

Twenty years ago people weren't aware of it as a profession, ... Now the first question in the marketing is, 'Who designed this course?'

Twenty years ago, only a major label could produce a really top-quality product, but now the costs of technology have fallen so much that anybody who gets it right and employs the right people can produce excellent results.

Twenty years ago, Jimmy Carter proclaimed the South Bronx the worst slum in America, ... Twenty years later, Bill Clinton comes to proclaim a miracle in the South Bronx.

Twenty years ago I was cooking in Las Vegas.

Twenty years ago it was about drinking and being hung over. Now people want to go out and have a special meal and a nice bottle of wine. They're not throwing back shots of tequila and dancing until midnight.

Twenty years ago if you were going to be a cook, it was because you didn't make it in the army. It was the last stop before you were on the street.

Twenty years ago, I didn't have a passion to do lighting. I started on stage, worked my way around and landed in lighting.

Twenty years ago, I'd go listen to people play. I found them fascinating and interesting and wanted to capture their faces for posterity.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man /and after that, praying.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Twenty wins, that doesn't happen very often in high school. I was happy to see Greg get that tonight.

Twenty to 30 percent of my work is now related to photography and writing.

Twenty to 25 years ago, Pennsylvania was the industrial giant of this country.

Twenty to 25 percent of our resources are going to be directed toward making sure companies don't drop programs.

Twenty percent would be fine, 30 percent would be fine as a transfer fee as opposed to paying the whole fee.

Twenty percent of workers say they called into work because they just didn't feel like going into the office that day. One in four workers report they feel sick days are equivalent to extra vacation days and treat them as such.

Twenty percent of people receive 80 percent of all infections,

Twenty percent of our population is made up of children, yet children are 100 percent of our future,

Twenty percent of our patients meet the criteria for needing more cardiovascular services. This will complement the services already offered.

Twenty percent is significantly faster than we expected for the overall market, and 20 percent growth for a $32 billion company is relatively unprecedented.

Twenty or 30 years from now, you're probably going to say you've watched one of the top five players to ever play this game.

Twenty more yards of field position wasn't going to make a difference. The series before, Texas had great success moving the ball downfield. If we get the first down, we win the game.

Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the (U.S.) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), would get very upset (if) somebody looks in their database,

Twenty million dollars is a lot of money. It goes very, very quickly when there's a lot of hands out there.

Twenty might not sound like a lot to someone from Indianapolis. But I'm from Chicago, and 20 touchdown passes is more than any Bears quarterback has thrown in 38 of the last 39 years.

Twenty is a good number, ... That way you can be creative, cut their hair off, have Barbie parties. I got them free, so I had 75.

Twenty home runs in a half season is pretty darn good.

Twenty games is not enough, ... Also, the union's proposal is not three strikes and you're out. It's three strikes and maybe you're out.

Twenty games are not enough. The union's proposal is not three strikes and you're out. It's three strikes and maybe you're out.

Twenty games are not enough. Also, the union's proposal is not three strikes and you're out. It is three strikes and maybe you're out.

Twenty games are not enough, ... Also, the union's proposal is not three strikes and you're out. It is three strikes and maybe you're out.

Twenty eight years ago we were playing non-league football and now we are in a cup final.

Twenty degrees is perfect for us. When it gets into the high 20s and the sun is out, it starts to affect the ice.

Vic has been involved in the oil and gas industry for over twenty years. His vast array of experience and knowledge will be a tremendous asset to the other members of the Board of Directors and to the Company as it moves forward.

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

We should commit resources, as we did to conquer polio in the fifties. We could quadruple the Alzheimer's budget and not saturate all clinical trials and possible targets. If we don't there will be hell to pay in twenty years.

Before I started drawing a comic, I would read my script for it ten or twenty times.

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And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: / And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, / Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).

Dumas Walker' was a big hit. It was about a guy who actually sold firecrackers and beer on the Tennessee line. We lived in Kentucky, and you couldn't buy either. Twenty years later we wrote this silly ditty in 20 minutes, but we weren't aware that everyone had a Dumas Walker.

There's much more awareness about the problem of suicides in jails. Twenty years ago if you asked a sheriff, he wouldn't have any information on it or any sensitivity to it. It wouldn't be on his radar screen.

The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemporarily seductive) in its time; dowdy five years after its time; hideous twenty years after its time; amusing thirty years after its time; romantic one hundred years after its time; beautiful one hundred and fifty years after its time.

The San Antonio, although she sailed a month and a half later, arrived twenty days before the San Carlos, losing on the voyage eight sailors.

It was a blow-off of the finest degree. I haven't seen anything like this in twenty years.....insulting.

'These cheap slaves fill every place. Their dress is scant and cheap. Their food is rice from China. They hedge twenty in a room, ten by ten.

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.

I've lived in Europe for the better part of twenty years, and I've noticed that one of the biggest errors Europeans make is to dismiss America as having no culture. That's an incredible mistake, and whether it's born of arrogance or neurosis, it's wrong.

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.'

See food as medicine eighty per cent of the time. The other twenty per cent of the time you can indulge.

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