Eighteen Quotes
People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.
A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.
There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA video game than he does watching actual FIFA games.
Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.
After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.
The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity.
I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...
I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.
Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.
With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then
Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.
Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.
The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.
Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.
In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.
I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.
He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.
Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.
I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.
Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember
Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?
It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .
I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.
Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.
The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics." Connie Rosolli
When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.