Thirty Quotes - Page 13

• Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would.

  Julie Powell

  Hate, Naps, Years

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• I always think I should get on it if I want to have kids. Because once you hit thirty it can be difficult to conceive — it can be dangerous. The best time to conceive is when you're a black
  teenager.

  Sarah

  Funny, Teenager, Kids

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• I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

  Paul Valery

  Writing, Vocabulary, Mind

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• The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year.
  There´s no sign of growth.
  Not even a hint.
  The same thing happens - or doesn´t happen - the second year.
  And then the third year.
  The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year,
  but nothing shows. No growth. No anything.
  For eight years it can continue. Eight years!
  Then - after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it - the bamboo tree suddenly sprouts and grows thirty feet in three months!

  Zig Ziglar

  Eight, Years, Feet

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• There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Waiting, Hamburgers, Lines

  Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press

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• Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Lying, Long, Soul

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.52

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• I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

  Thayer David

  Thinking, Twenties

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• I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

  Dana Carvey

  Years, Age, Levels

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• The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Race, Sixty Minutes, Perfect

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• Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

  Richard Branson

  Future, Space, People

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• The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Years, Earth

  "Vincent Van Gogh".

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• Hey, single malt scotch, youre thirty years old. When are you going to settle down and get married to my stomach?

  Stephen Colbert

  Scotch, Years, Hey

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• In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

  Mark Twain

  Europe And America, Discovery, Years

  Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.6, 谷月社

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• If at the age of thirty you don't know what God has called you to do; you may never know.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Age, May, Knows

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• In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

  Mark Jason Dominus

  Years, People, Laughing

  The Perl Review Interview, April 7, 2005.

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• I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

  John Woolman

  Writing, Years, Age

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty.

  Shel Silverstein

  Work, Creating, Style

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• These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race

  Frederick Douglass

  Taken, School, Race

  Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison (1849). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, p.82

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• I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it. I'm still
  writing, I'm still writing poetry, I still can't explain why, and I'm still running out of time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Writing, Appreciate

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Writing, Thinking, Ice Cream

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• Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Success, Dream, Reality

  A Left-Handed Commencement Address, delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California

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• Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children see on the screen is violence as an almost casual commonplace of daily living. Violence becomes the fundamental principle of society, the natural law of humanity. Killing is as common as taking a walk, a gun more natural than an umbrella. Children learn to take pride in force and to feel ashamed of ordinary sympathy. They are encouraged to forget that people have feelings.

  Fredric Wertham

  Children, Moving, Pride

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• Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Tired, Years

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• Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Age, Favors

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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