A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.
The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.
The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.
Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.
I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.
Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.
The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
I'd much rather be on stage talking to a couple of retards for twenty bucks than sitting at my desk thinking up jokes for. . . well let's say a few dollars more.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars
If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.
I remember a phone call from a friend of mine who lives along the MacKenzie River. She said, "This is the first year in twenty that the chinook salmon have not returned. " This woman knows the names of things. This woman is committed to a place. And she sounded the alarm.
I've probably read maybe by now fifteen, twenty books on Matthew. I'd say the authors I like best are an English fellow named Michael Goulder, who taught at the University of Birmingham in England, and he writes about the Jewish background in Matthew's gospel, which is part of what I was just talking about, which is just really thrilling to me.
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.
In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1. 4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.