Eighteen Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Claudia Gray

  Stupid, Years, People

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• How many of them were there?' Her voice wasn't joking around. Eighteen. Hundred.' Four,' Blaylock interjected. 'An honor guard of four.' What did they work you over with? Those bruises on your thighs are severe?' Crowbars. Big, massive-' Blay cut in. 'Clubs. Had to be those ceremonial black clubs.

  J.R. Ward

  Cutting, Voice, Black

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• Where is Wilkins, anyway?" Cameron asked. "In the living room, being accosted by eighteen women who think he's a stripper. I thought it was best to duck in here." "So much for never leaving a man behind." "If he starts screaming, I'll lay down a cover fire and go pull him out.

  Julie James

  Men, Thinking, Fire

  Julie James (2010). “Something About You”, p.117, Penguin

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• I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and respect; return home at day break with my brain in a state which was never intended for it; and arise in the middle of the next day feeling infinitely more, in spirit and flesh like a Liliputian, than a woman with body and soul. Entry (when she was eighteen) in her Commonplace Book, 1868-1869.

  Kate Chopin

  Lying, Book, Home

  Kate Chopin, Per Seyersted, Emily Toth (1979). “A Kate Chopin miscellany”, Northwestern State Univ

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• We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Believe, Heart

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.67, Random House

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• Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fall, Mean, Golf

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman.

  Lorrie Moore

  Weather, Vortex, Might

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.146, Vintage

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• I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

  Mary Balogh

  Wish, Doe, Compromise

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• 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.

  Ashley Greene

  Party, Years, Focus

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• I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Thinking, Political, Politics

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• Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

  Jessica Lange

  Twelve, France, Rage

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• 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.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mother, Giving, Months

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• It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

  Elon Musk

  America, Energy, Three

  "Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will". Interview with Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen." I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?

  Neal Shusterman

  Mean, Thinking, Needs

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

  Michael J. Fox

  Years, Eighteen Years Old, Checks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Morrigan "Don't worry I'm following my instincts." Birkita "Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts" Morrigan "I'm eighteen, nothing I do is prudent

  P. C. Cast

  Worry, Way, Prudent

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Father, Years, Two

  Elizabeth Edwards (2010). “Resilience: The New Afterword”, p.8, Crown Archetype

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• Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder.

  Richelle Mead

  Daughter, Sacrifice, Felons

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• Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool.

  Richelle Mead

  Caves, Last Sacrifice

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1217, Penguin

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• I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

  Phyllis Diller

  Years, Behinds

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• The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

  Smedley Butler

  War, Eight, Sky

  Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.20, The Forlorn Press

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• Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I? I was a nineteen-year-old and I was in love with Louis and I was in love with you, and I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful as the sight of you walking out a glass door in the early morning, still sleepy, in your underwear. Isn't it strange?

  Michael Cunningham

  Beautiful, Morning, Love You

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.199, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It was all still with me, the storage space in my brain crammed with vivid memories, packed and piled like photographs and old dresses in my grandmother’s bureau. I wasn’t just the madwoman in the attic — I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Memories, Grandmother, Past

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.

  Douglas Coupland

  Suicide, Warrior, People

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• Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

  Sarah Dessen

  Cutting, Wanted, My Own

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