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
When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single. — Jacob Ruppert 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've been standing at water coolers for the past thirty years talking to women about their love lives, and here's what I've… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy,… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
In 1980, a woman promised her dying sister to change how Americans thought about breast cancer. Thirty years later, the result -… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements. — Bill Klem Copy Share Image
The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Thirty is still the iconic number. It's when people compare their actual lives with what they think they should have achieved. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1. — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
How long do we have to deal with conservative failure? How long? Thirty years is not enough? So I would say enough… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image