I'd been waiting to turn thirty my whole life. For some…

“There are those nights wehn you're pushing thirty and life seems over. When you feel like you'll never tie up any ends and no…

— Robert McLiam Wilson

“Well, I did turn thirty today somewhere between layer four—baby poop brown—and layer three—seventies kitchen green.”

— Shelley Noble

In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person…

— Rashida Jones

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

— Helen Rowland

It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the…

— Voltaire

If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy…

— Edward Albee

Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a…

— Anthony James Leggett

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those…

— Tyler Perry

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a…

— Samuel Richardson

This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man,…

— Frank Miller

The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder.…

— Julian Barnes

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

[Erwin Rommel] explained why in short words, what the two generals' message and then he explained his position and he gave some reason for…

— Manfred Rommel

I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New…

— Meghan Daum