Best Fourteen Words
211 Fourteen quotes by 184 unique authors
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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was…
— Uma Thurman
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Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India,…
— Jules Verne
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Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and…
— Martin Filler
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Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want…
— Nick Hornby
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Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my…
— Anne Frank
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She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a…
— Millard Kaufman
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. . . And so Charlie Asher . . . led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles…
— Christopher Moore
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him…
— Jasper Fforde
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...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest…
— Katherine Paterson
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Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl…
— Garth Nix
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My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
— Alice Sebold
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Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.
— Janet Evanovich
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Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
— Markus Zusak
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A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.
— Edward P. Jones
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God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless…
— Benjamin Carson
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I'm going to turn fifteen tomorrow," i said, warming to the idea. "It's high time. I can't remember when i turned fourteen." (said by Max)…
— James Patterson
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[in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A…
— Christopher Moore
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The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends…
— Augusten Burroughs
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My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase.
— Rick Riordan
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Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea…
— Ally Carter
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In this family, we always celebrate each other's birthdays. I don't care if you're four or fourteen or forty and scattered around the world. We…
— James Patterson
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