Twenty Minutes

Famous quotes containing the words twenty minutes, twenty and/or minutes:

“At La Scala it is customary to take no more than twenty minutes for those little visits one pays to boxes.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“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 (1875–1950)

“English people apparently queue up as a sort of hobby. A family man might pass a mild autumn evening by taking the wife and kids to stand in the cinema queue for a while and then leading them over for a few minutes in the sweetshop queue and then, as a special treat for the kids, saying “Perhaps we’ve time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.””
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1940)