Sixteen Quotes - Page 3

• Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.

  S. E. Hinton

  Life, Sight, Years

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.84, Penguin

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• I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

  Margaret Atwood

  Age, Faults, Poet

  "Margaret Atwood: Writing Philosophy". Margaret Atwood's Waterstone's poetry lecture at Hay On Wye in Wales, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• I had a lot of different jobs between fifteen and nineteen. I'd moved out of my house way, way younger than I should have. So I was living out on my own with my brother when I'd just turned sixteen. I did busboy stuff, and worked in warehouses, and did odd jobs, and stuff. I earned me some Pesos.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Brother, Jobs, Should Have

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

  George Lucas

  Cutting, Sunday, Blade Runner

  "5 Questions With George Lucas: Controversial 'Star Wars' Changes, SOPA and 'Indiana Jones 5'". Interview With Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

  Lucy Powell

  Army, Years, Pay

  "Giving the vote to 16-year-olds is a question of democracy" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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• From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

  Samuel Richardson

  Humor, Twenties, Be Good

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.380

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• But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

  Lord Byron

  Years, Evil, Balance

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• ....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Order, Oysters

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• People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

  Tom Vilsack

  Growing Up, Military, Believe

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• Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts.

  Elena Avila

  Heart, Journey, Sometimes

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• My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

  Ryan White

  Years, Names, White

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• I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.

  Errol Morris

  Powerful, Real, One Day

  Interview with Nick Poppy, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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• A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Eight, Years, Two

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• It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in acidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occassional bad-hair day. I still possessed both legs and both eyes, and even my hair looked all right when I rose that Wednesday morning in late January. If I returned to bed sixteen hours later, having lost all my hair but nothing else, I would consider the day a triumph. Even minus a few teeth, I'd call it a triumph.

  Dean Koontz

  Morning, Eye, Journey

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• A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Eight, Two, Twenties

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

  Lucille Clifton

  Letting Go, Running, New Year

  Lucille Clifton (1974). “An ordinary woman”

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• It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.

  Mary Roach

  Heart, People, Waiting

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• If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Women, Twenties

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• I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

  Adele

  Voice, Paris, Singing

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• Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be — or to be indistinguishable from — self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Self, Years, Games

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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• I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Sleep, Fighting

  The Winter's Tale III. III. 59

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• Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

  Paul Ryan

  Obamacare, Grandparent, President

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Media, Common Sense, Prejudice

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• I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am--I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.

  J. D. Salinger

  People, Sometimes, Thirteen

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Dan," she said. "I'm worried about him. It's not right that a thirteen-year-old knows as much as he does bout stealing things." " You're right," Jake said. "He should have been at least sixteen like you before he became part of an international crime ring.

  Roland Smith

  Stealing Things, Should Have, Years

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