At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder. — Naz?m Hikmet Copy Share Image
“You don’t sleep. You’re thirty-four years old and lost the power to sleep when you were eighteen. Is” — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“After all, eighteen years of my life had been geared toward priesthood.” — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically . — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub. — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Well I’m sixteen, close enough. Scarlett is eighteen, which makes Silas . . . wow. What does someone Silas’s age want with… — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and… — Meriwether Lewis Copy Share Image
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet… — Vince Poscente Copy Share Image
“Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker’s dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren’t in our… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
So, you wouldn't marry me." "Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!" "Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I've been working on a collection of prose vignettes about girls I've had crushes on, from the age of six to the… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this… — Kate Levering Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A woman recently told me a story about her descent into chronic fatigue. She was sleeping sixteen, eighteen hours a day, and… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Hildy O’Dair is old for her age,” she thought. “It’s like powder was sprinkled on her yellow hair. But she’s not much… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days. — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
No. No way! No, this doesnt count. I stopped aging three days ago. I am eighteen forever. -Bella Cullen — The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Copy Share Image
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story. — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her. — Ken Dodd Copy Share Image
