Nineteen Quotes

113 Nineteen quotes by 101 unique authors

When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or… — Sylvia Plath
The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that… — Haruki Murakami
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I… — Sylvia Plath
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War.… — George Packer
A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers. — Kami Garcia
The reason I don’t worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to… — Jon Stewart
It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down,… — Donna Tartt
At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes… — Stephen King
But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last… — Judith Viorst
Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I… — Bill de Blasio
Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable. — Teju Cole
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember… — Anne Hull
Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids. — Anne Hull
Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime… — Elliott Abrams
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles. — Jill Lepore
In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen… — Jill Lepore
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science,… — Jill Lepore
Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties. — Robert Gottlieb
Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
I have five television sets. (I like to think of them as a set of five televisions.) I have two DVR boxes, three DVD players,… — Rick Moranis
In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks… — Rick Perlstein
I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. — Sibel Edmonds
I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come… — Gyorgy Ligeti
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. — John Stuart Mill

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