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Quotes About Twenty

Twenty minutes ago he'd left his brother's engagement party and headed straight for the belly of San Francisco's Mission District.
~ Bella Andre
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
~ James Howell
I have a little piece of Hubble that someone brought back from one of the repair missions. It's on my desk, where I work. I do feel a personal connection to it. It's been part of my life for 20 years.
~ Heidi Hammel
An hour later—or maybe it was only twenty minutes—Myron collapsed and rolled onto his back.
~ Harlan Coben
I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at The Four Seasons in twenty minutes anyway," I lie, standing up.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.
~ Karleen Koen
I've been a police officer for twenty years now and I'll tell you, pretty much every bad thing is life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
One of the doctors who had worked for him in the castle twenty years ago always said that God takes pity on motherfuckers first.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
~ Adam Rich
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.
~ Johannes Stark
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.
~ Anthony Holden
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.
~ Mary Kay Blakely
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.
~ John Grisham
Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield.
~ Geoff Downes
I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.
~ John Catsimatidis
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.
~ Bubba Wallace
In an early version of the story, I thought Aang could shepherd a herd of twenty bison.
~ Bryan Konietzko
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.
~ Jay Chandrasekhar
My father was an amazing guy. Twenty years in the Navy, great father.
~ Rick Harrison
Online Computer Library Center, a global cooperative of twenty thousand libraries located in 122 countries around the world.
~ Susan Orlean
The preparations at Corpus Christi for an advance progressed as rapidly in the absence of some twenty or more lieutenants as if we had been there.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
The detective cleared his throat. It sounded like he was reading. "At seven twenty p.m., an officer in Rock Creek Park interrupted an assault and robbery in progress. The victim was a female
~ Geraldine Brooks
Hi there, this is Captain Nemo of the Submarine Nautilus speaking. Over. You're who? The guy in Twenty Zillion Leagues Under the Sea. You know. Great flick. Saw it when I was a kid in Seattle. Best part was the fight with the giant squid.
~ Clive Cussler