After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

- Dan DeCarlo

I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

- Gavin MacLeod

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.

- Gregory Corso

For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane.

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Gene Kelly

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

- Frederick Douglass

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.

- Francis Crick

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

- Ernst Mach

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

- David Sedaris

In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

- Curtis Sittenfeld

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.

- Chris Robinson

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

- Charles Kennedy

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

- Bert Campaneris

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

- Belinda Carlisle

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

- Bao Dai

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

- Billy Wilder

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

- Alice Munro