#twenty

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#hollywood #i #overweight #ox #pounds

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

— Helen Rowland

#another woman #fool #her #him #make

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

— Helen Rowland

#another woman #fool #her #him #make

And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet. ↗

— John Sayles

#develop #feet #first #get #going

There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific. ↗

— John Sayles

#comments #couple #department #directed #fifteen

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#city #could #days #extraordinary #find

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#film #gave #guy #hope #i

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

#between #change #chemical #connexion #experimental

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#asses #beneficial #clown #exercises #good

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five. ↗

— James Taylor

#bought #carolina #cello #father #fourteen