At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to… — Danny Jacob Copy Share Image
We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success.… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old. — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that… — Donald Dunn Copy Share Image
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It… — Athenaeus Copy Share Image
To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Dealing with politically-engaged writers of color like Abdellatif Laâbi and Rashid Boudjedra - who ran away from school aged sixteen to fight… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
I was scouted when I was, like, sixteen, and I hated it. I wasn't ready to work. When I turned 19, I… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my… — John Britton Copy Share Image
I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen. — Richard Harris Barham Copy Share Image
