Thirteen Quotes - Page 9

• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Humility, Order

  69 Copy quote

• I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)

  Marian Keyes

  Years, Shoes, Clothes

  13 Copy quote

• I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

  Jeff Lynne

  Thinking, Tree, Age

  "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

  George Montgomery

  Drinking, Years, Alcohol

  13 Copy quote

• If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

  Marisol Nichols

  Book, Thinking, Games

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.

  Angus Young

  People, Sound, Albums

  23 Copy quote

• In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

  William Lilly

  Years, House, Pounds

  William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.78

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

  Graham Greene

  Children, Dark, Tunnels

  12 Copy quote

• All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

  Victoria Wood

  Want, Colour, My Friends

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

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

  Dave Grohl

  Dark, Listening, Sides

  10 Copy quote

• My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England—I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

  Ida Lupino

  Sweet, Play, Age

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

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.

  Terence McKenna

  Cutting, Years, Stupidity

  21 Copy quote

• Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!

  Alexander Hamilton

  Greatness, Together, Connections

  The Federalist no. 11 (1788)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.

  Andrew Jackson

  Ambition, Government, People

  "Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren".

  152 Copy quote

  Show source

• For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

  Virginia Woolf

  Years, Mind, Body

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.834, Wordsworth Editions

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

  Paul Krassner

  Atheist, Japan, Age

  18 Copy quote

• Thirteen at a table is unlucky only,
  when the hostess has only twelve chops.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Twelve, Tables

  11 Copy quote

• The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Teenager, Spring

  69 Copy quote

• When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

  Ringo Starr

  Drummer, Wanted

  9 Copy quote

• A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Mother, Baby, Children

  45 Copy quote

• I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

  Lewis Carroll

  Trying, Twenties, Twelve

  Lewis Carroll (2009). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.9, Lulu.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.

  Robert Fulghum

  Family, Mother, Hands

  9 Copy quote

• It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Crush, Talking, People

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Remember Me?”, p.290, Random House

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

  Mark Rothko

  Fifty, Dollars, Looks

  27 Copy quote

• Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

  Edward Abbey

  Church, Bars, Four

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

  12 Copy quote

  Show source