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167 Olds quotes by 156 unique authors

Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing… — Neal Stephenson
Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you. Or, believe it,… — Sloane Crosley
3:12 pm Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are five-year-olds. Why must… — Jaclyn Moriarty
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations. — Freeman Dyson
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further… — Malcolm Gladwell
He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I… — Markus Zusak
THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern.… — Janet Evanovich
Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look. — Steig Larsson
You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie.… — Stephenie Meyer
Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night… — Melina Marchetta
It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what… — Melina Marchetta
You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine. — Justin Halpern
you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang… — Scott Westerfeld
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing… — John Green
You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
It rang and it rand and it rang. I looked at the screen one last time, then at Stuart, and then I reached my arm… — Maureen Johnson
And anyway, the truth isn't all that great. I mean, what's the truth? Planes falling out of the sky. Buses blowing up and ripping little… — Michael Thomas Ford
But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be. — Lauren Kate
Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety… — John Green
It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of… — Marc Maron
The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials! — Joan Ganz Cooney
Today, 30-year-olds are becoming social entrepreneurs. — Jacqueline Novogratz
India needs a change - it cannot be ruled by 80-year-olds and by people who have done nothing for it. — Arjun Rampal
We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to… — Noah Baumbach

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