It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

I think the best way to prepare for the future 20 years is find something you love to do, to have a shot at being one of the best people in the world at it. Build an independent brand around it, with your name.

Fay Chung responds, "So it was meant for 20 years, it went on for 40?

Yes, I believe it was intended to last for just 20 years.

I didn’t mean my experiments with comics to be immediately taken up as something that the whole industry should do. When I was doing things like ‘Watchmen,’ I was not saying that dark psychopathic characters are really cool, but that does seem to be the message that the industry took for the next 20 years.

I think I was pretty much constant, unvarying, for 20 years. So, I do want to give myself a pat on the back for focusing on one career without any dramatic slumps for the last 20 years. But [personally] I don’t want a son like me. I don’t think that highly of myself.

We hope the peace will last for twenty years. Then we will be here again.

I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

for many people “twenty years of experience” is really one year of experience repeated twenty times.

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

All shows have a lifespan. You start to run out of stories. You start to run out of a new vision. It is very hard to sustain something too long and it'll become detrimental when you do. These have lifespans, I believe.

Now you know all there is to know. But it will be twenty years before you see.

You know, I just decided that... November 3rd of 2020, I will have 20 years. I will be fully vested. So it's a good, solid foundation to catapult me to the next level. I'll be able to help other people.

We’ve been fighting off attacks of one kind or another for twenty years, almost.