Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't… — Ian Smith Copy Share Image
When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Hey, single malt scotch, youre thirty years old. When are you going to settle down and get married to my stomach? — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
In the thirty years of my career I learned everything about success, but I did not learn, really, about failure. In Bar… — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut… — Dizzy Dean Copy Share Image
In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into… — Paul Revere Copy Share Image
When I turned thirty, I threw everything out. I ended a relationship and started a new one, I sold my house, I… — Richard Bacon Copy Share Image
For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hi. Cat was just keeping me company until you came back.” He glanced in the direction she’d just disappeared to before returning… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that.… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The "female culture" has shifted more rapidly than the "male culture"; the image of the go-get 'em woman has yet to be… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
[Erwin Rommel] explained why in short words, what the two generals' message and then he explained his position and he gave some… — Manfred Rommel 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
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
We always thought we wanted to do a show that you could both laugh and cry in thirty minutes, and I don't… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a… — Evan S. Connell Copy Share Image
Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never! — William Osler 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
You called me at four thirty-four…I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable,… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an… — Robert Brady Copy Share Image
George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago. — John Bright Copy Share Image
I tell myself that's what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl's front yard. People tend to… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image