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.

In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

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.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

David Foster Wallace, in my opinion, is one of the greatest writers we've ever had, certainly in the last twenty years. His obvious dominance of the English language is partnered with honest moments and the most beautifully dark sensibility.

Twenty years in sport has given me a broad perspective on life, bringing me into contact with a variety of social issues, and with those experiences have come insight and knowledge.

Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.