Thirty Quotes · Page 4

Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

— E. O. Wilson

I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!

— Marilyn Monroe

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge...

— Abdullah ibn Mubarak

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

— Jimmy Carter

“At thirty either you are perfect or nothing.”

— Aporva Kala

“I wasn't a stranger to dealing with thirty-plus-year-old adolescents”

— Terri Anne Browning

I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.

— Robert Harling

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life,…

— Tibor Fischer

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

— Mark Twain

Thirty is still the iconic number. It's when people compare their actual lives with what they think they should have achieved.

— Jane Fallon

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had…

— Gerda Lerner

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with…

— William Saroyan

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would…

— Alfred Schnittke

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing…

— Louisa May Alcott

I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra instead of a…

— Evelyn Keyes

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy…

— Raymond Chandler

The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the…

— Jasper Fforde

On my first bowhunt on the property a few years back, I was on my own for twenty-two days and killed an…

— Ted Nugent

The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad…

— Medea Benjamin

In the case of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, an issue that is central to the film…

— Alex Gibney

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will…

— Gaylord Nelson

Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime.…

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right? Take…

— Jack LaLanne

“BACHELOR NUMBER ONE IS A NO-GO, she texted Trish. HE TALKED TOO MUCH. Within seconds, Trish texted back. ISN’T TALKING A GOOD…

— Julie James

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the…

— Douglas Adams

Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and…

— Markus Zusak

“It’s Thursday the first time I see it. I know that it’s Thursday because Thursday nights are the nights my dog, Lily,…

— Steven Rowley

The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten…

— Brad Alan Lewis

I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living…

— Henry Lipson

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such…

— George Orwell

Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.

— John Cleese

I've always been frightened of turning thirty.

— Emily Atack

I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death.

— Karen Marie Moning

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

— Andrew Dickson White

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

— Asne Seierstad

A car is thirty thousand parts you're putting together.

— Mary Barra

I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.

— Philip Larkin