If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.
Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr. , Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage. ]
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.
Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.
TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew - Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers -. 300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.
One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.
A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years.
Here's a twenty, bury two.
I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.
This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.