Thirty Quotes · Page 9

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

— Daphne du Maurier

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

— Georges Clemenceau

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

— Robert M. Pirsig

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

— Richard Brautigan

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

— Ted Shackelford

Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.

— Laozi

We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty; but the idea of war itself.

— Deepak Chopra

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

— Felix Frankfurter

George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that…

— Johnny Carson

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

— John Bright

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

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

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

Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break…

— Peter Menzel

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

— William Osler

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the…

— Paul Valery

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things…

— Gunther Schuller

I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, I've found that students are hungry for material that goes beyond simply learning…

— Tony Trischka

If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against…

— George Best

It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or…

— David Levithan

We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will…

— Ted Turner

Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by…

— Swami Vivekananda

I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to…

— Mavis Gallant

“I can’t believe I’m thirty-one-years-old, lying on my back on a pier in broad daylight--in my own hometown, I might add--trying to…

— Donna Kauffman

I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed…

— Rod Serling

[Erwin Rommel] explained why in short words, what the two generals' message and then he explained his position and he gave some…

— Manfred Rommel

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or…

— Samuel Richardson

Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which…

— Cynthia Heimel

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

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

Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what…

— Neal A. Maxwell

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

— Justin Cronin

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

— Aristotle

“And if I can last thirty rounds, there's no reason you should ever have your head down.”

— Anonymous

“I’m now solidly in my mid-thirties. I turned thirty, three days ago.”

— Jarod Kintz

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

— H. L. Mencken

At no point in my thirty years have I ever felt truly represented by the fashion industry.

— Jameela Jamil

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

— Ridley Scott