#twenty

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#almost #because #been #comedies #comedy

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. ↗

— Mark Twain

#ever #first #minutes #saved #sermon

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#anybody #colleagues #composers #decided #drop

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#barbarity #been #country #during #effort

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different. ↗

— Jack White

#change #different #entire #everyone #girl

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

— Billy Wilder

#i #lot #met #minutes #my time

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#luck #percent #probably #skill #twenty

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#far #hard #how #how far #in the past

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty. ↗

— Robert Casey

#access #children #during #had #into

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside. ↗

— Zell Miller

#campaign #deep #deep inside #how #inside