Thirty Quotes - Page 16

• I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.

  Julie Newmar

  Feet, Pounds, Looks

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• Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

  Robert Genn

  Tombstone, Years, Lasts

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• You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Men, Months

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• I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, Teaching, School

  "P. Diddy - Likely Wrong Choice for Howard U. Commencement Address" by Morris W. O’Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2014.

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• Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Wealth, Dangerous

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Organization, Membership

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• Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.

  Theophilus London

  Percent, Five

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• The increase in the amount of heat in the oceans amounts to 17 x 10^22 Joules over the last 30 years. That is so much energy it is equivalent to exploding a Hiroshima bomb every second in the ocean for thirty years.

  Stefan Rahmstorf

  Ocean, Years, Lasts

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• There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible. In fact, external sources verify that at least eighty persons mentioned in the Bible were actual historical figures. Fifty people from the Old Testament, and thirty people from the New Testament.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Writing, Names

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• My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.

  Bill Mauldin

  Reading, Italian, Years

  Bill Mauldin, United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (1978). “Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution”, Government Printing Office

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• The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wind, Names, Two

  "'Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten' ('Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious')". Book by Sigmund Freud, as translated by James Strache, p. 101, 1960.

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• For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

  Ringo Starr

  Laughing, People, Together

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• Dance on, dance on, we see, we see
  Youth goes, alack, and with it glee,
  A boy the old man ne'er can be;
  Maternal thirty scarce can find
  The sweet sixteen long left behind.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Sweet, Boys, Men

  "Youth and Age". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough,

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• Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.

  Marguerite Duras

  Years, Cities, Paris

  Marguerite Duras (1997). “Outside”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.

  Augustus

  Loss, Winning, Order

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• Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.

  Edwin Land

  Photography, Years, Liquid

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• I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.

  Peter Weiss

  Country, Spring, Ideas

  Peter Weiss (1966). “Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point”

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• One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly.

  Dick Stuart

  Dog, Night, Fans

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• The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Years, Class, People

  "What is to be done?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 262, 1899.

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• Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Dog, Years, Long

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.64, Lulu.com

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• Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure? Can it be possible that our passion for large cities, and large parties, and large theatres, and large churches, develops no faith nor hope nor love which would not find aliment and exercise in a little "world of our own"?

  Edward Everett Hale

  Party, Passion, Exercise

  Edward Everett Hale (1899). “Works”

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• I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!

  Charles Lamb

  Wall, Tired, Air

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.196

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• There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.

  Russell Baker

  Years, May, Berlin

  Russell Baker (1981). “So this is depravity”, Pocket Books

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• I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

  Enoch Powell

  Years, Russia, Challenges

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• I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Football, Running, Heart

  Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.25, Open Road Media

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