Twenty Minutes

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

    That was the saddest thing for Sybille: after twenty minutes you have got as far with these people as after half a year, as after many years, nothing more is added.
    Max Frisch (1911–1991)

    “How old is she, Billy boy, Billy boy?
    How old is she, charming Billy?”
    Past six, past seven,
    Past twenty and eleven,
    She’s a young thing, and cannot leave her mother.”
    Unknown. Billy Boy (l. 21–25)

    He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
    Henry Fielding (1707–1754)