Seventeen Quotes - Page 9

• After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Book, Two, Historical

  "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.

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• I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. I’m an orphan, and someday I’ll be a lawyer. That’s what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.

  Roberto Bolano

  Uncles, School, Aunt

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• How old are you? Twelve?" "Fourteen & three quarters." His eyes sparkled. "You're kind of little for fourteen and three quarters." "Am not," I replied indignantly. "I'm a sophomore this year. How old are you?" "Seventeen and two fifths." Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Years, Two

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• Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief broken life came within mind's reach and made a whole again. He knew once more, at last, after this long, bitter, waisted time, who he was and where he was. But where he must go in the years to come, that he could not see; and he feared to see it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Night, Years, Long

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• She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Shining, Lips

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.230, Penguin

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• From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

  George Orwell

  Book, Writing, Should Have

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.

  Henry Rollins

  Mean, Ideas, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.

  Justin Timberlake

  Jobs, People, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
  Georgius Secundus was then alive,--
  Snuffy old drone from the German hive.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Drones, Alive, Fifty

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1862). “Songs in Many Keys”, p.167

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• The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat.

  Michael Pollan

  Government, Years, Two

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.91, Penguin

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• The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to disappear, and go into his hole like the seventeen-year locust, in an ever-shabby coat, though finer than the farmer's best, yet never dressed.... He especially is the creature of the occasion. He empties both his pockets and his character into the stream, and swims in such a day. He dearly loves the social slush. There is no reserve of soberness in him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Years, Next Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.241, Xist Publishing

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• Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is not told. Why do they still dodge the truth? They are so anxious because of a dim consciousness of the fact, which they do not distinctly face, that at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise the tactics.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, White, Anxiety

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• The arresting officer, who I had literally known, all my life. You know what I mean? This guy lived four doors down the street me, in a town of less than four hundred people. *We've met.* Now, he takes me to jail, and he asks me if I have any aliases. And I was just being a smartass, and I said, "Yeah. They call me, "Tater Salad!" Seventeen years later, I'm handcuffed on a bench in New York with blood coming out of my nose, and this cop goes, "Are you Ron 'Tater Salad' White?"

  Ron White

  Funny, Mean, Doors

  "Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Years, Done

  Voltaire, Frederick II (King of Prussia) (1927). “Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great”

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• I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

  Robert Reed

  Eye, Self, Years

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• I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Children, Moving, Eye

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “The Hanged Man”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

  Steve Martin

  Money, Math, Dollars

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• I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Baby, Morning

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy. Hey, no one said high school was easy.

  Richelle Mead

  Crazy, School, Years

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.188, Penguin

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