Fourteen Quotes - Page 4

• And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.

  Janet Evanovich

  Years, Mouths, Body

  Janet Evanovich (2001). “Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

  Alice Sebold

  Names, Salmon, Firsts

  The Lovely Bones ch. 1 (2002)

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• In this family, we always celebrate each other's birthdays. I don't care if you're four or fourteen or forty and scattered around the world. We gotta stick by each other, okay? And meals- as long as you live under the same roof, you have at least one meal a day together. I don't care if it's a dreaded hot dog in front of the dastardly TV as long as you're all there. -Maeve Bennett

  James Patterson

  Dog, Long, Together

  James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (2008). “Step on a crack”

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• Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.

  Garth Nix

  Girl, Thinking, Library

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.38, Hot Key Books

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• Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lying, Eye, Boys

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.125, e-artnow

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• I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

  James Taylor

  Father, Real, Nice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

  Peter Steele

  Years, Band, Lasts

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• It’s fairly standard. Also, I’m fourteen. Also, your beard’s stupid.” “Isn’t this fun?” Skulduggery said brightly. “The three of us getting along so well.

  Derek Landy

  Fun, Stupid, Three

  Derek Landy (2009). “The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 3)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Creativity, Imagination, Beats

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.11, Macmillan

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• I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

  Dave Chappelle

  Comedian, Ceo

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• Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

  Ann Coulter

  Birthday, Philosophical, Swings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

  Moby

  Rocks, Guitar, Years

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• I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Talent, Irritating

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.128, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.

  Kid Rock

  Kids, Independent, House

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• The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

  Adam Savage

  Couple, Glasses, Years

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• The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends nor therapists; not even in rehab when we were detailing our own personal spirals of shame did I confess. It is this: I am a graduate of the Barbizon School of Modeling.

  Augusten Burroughs

  School, Rehab, Facts

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Magical Thinking: True Stories”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.198, Google Publishing

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• My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

  Gene Simmons

  Mother, Good Day, Nazi Concentration Camps

  "Gene Simmons: What I've Learned" by Chris Buck, www.esquire.com. July 2002.

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• I will always love the Clash, because I loved them so much when I was fourteen, and I love how you can start a conversation with almost literally any dude about the Clash.

  Rob Sheffield

  Conversation, Clash

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.14, Penguin

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• I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Cancer, Months, Memoir

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time - or better - the experience of color coming slowly out of the tube - is with me to this day.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Oil, Feelings

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• I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. All the wealth in the world and not a single intelligent idea as to how to employ it.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Intelligent, Ideas, Oil

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Mainly, life experiences with my family or travelling as a young kid, I feel like I had a different lifestyle than a lot of people leaving on tour when I was fourteen and stuff, so I pull from that.

  Zac Farro

  Kids, People, Leaving

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• You are fooling yourself whenever you think you are productive just because you have worked fourteen hours in a day. You will be truly productive when you do the same amount of work in four hours, and take the other ten hours to enjoy the good things life has to offer.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Thinking, Four

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• Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old
  woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it,
  she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'

  David Letterman

  Years, Two Year Olds, Dating

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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