Thirty Quotes

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.

[When told that her grandchild had her nose:] I didn't get this nose until I was thirty-four.

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

Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

People are always spewing this horseshit about how age doesn't matter. Well, it does matter! I'm thirty-five, and I'm happy to be thirty-five. I can't pretend I'm still a snot-nosed 21-year-old.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

What he (Sammy Sosa) and I have been doing is fantastic. What we've done nobody in the game has done for thirty-seven years. I'm pretty happy with the way things have been going.

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

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

Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.

Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

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

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Hey, single malt scotch, youre thirty years old. When are you going to settle down and get married to my stomach?

Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.

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

We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

My wife had a go at me last night. She said, Youll drive me to my grave. I had the car out in thirty seconds.

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.

For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.

I really hate those Internet freaks who take each thirty minute bundle of joy and turn it into a cult game of Where's Wally.

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.