Thirty Quotes

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacker required.

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.

Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

"I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because she has credentials of thirty-years standing.

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.

I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.

Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.

Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.

A normal fight is thirty seconds of rolling around on the floor, scrapping, that's what it is. It's not rolling over boxes or getting punched through windows.

I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.

I'd never taken to four foot creatures who had the uncanny ability to point out all my flaws in thirty second flat. And just for the record, I can too read without moving my lips.

Want coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way. "It's three thirty in the morning." "Okay. Want coffee?

I had yet to be a mother, but I would have thought it difficult to forget something it took thirty-seven hours of excruciating pain to push out from between my legs ~Charley Davidson

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty; but the idea of war itself.

Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

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.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

I grew up thirty miles down the highway in San Marcos, and I've still got family there, so I guess I'm pretty well rooted.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

How few women have any history after the age of thirty!

Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.