Seventies Quotes - Page 10

• All right, cupcakes. You are about to see the Grand Canyon. Try not to break it. The skywalk can hold the weight of seventy jumbo jets, to you featherweights should be safe out there. If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

  Rick Riordan

  Cupcakes, Trying, Pushing Each Other

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• Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Heart, May

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Years, Age

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.694, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wise, Long, Age

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.331, Penguin

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• ...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Five, Felt

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.568, Macmillan

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• I know of nothing more useful to you than four matters: surrender to Allah, to humbly entreat Him, to think the best of Him, and to perpetually renew your repentance to Him, even if you should repeat as in seventy times in a day.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Thinking

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• Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.

  J.A. Konrath

  Sorry, Dad, Heart

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• Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?

  Nick Hornby

  Smart, Odds, People

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• I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

  Stephen King

  Book, Order, Years

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta) Yeah, right. (Aiden) Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like an accident. (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Two, Nine

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• Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?

  D. J. MacHale

  Confused, People, Dinosaurs

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “The Soldiers of Halla”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.

  Graham Greene

  Love You, Years, Bridges

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)

  Nick Hornby

  Writing, Character, Class

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

  Dorothy Parker

  Years, People, Age

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

  Scott Lynch

  Years, Play, Giving

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.414, Del Rey

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• But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254

  Alice Sebold

  Believe, Waiting, Alone Time

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• I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Voice, Overcoming

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

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• Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts, because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Fall, Average

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.202, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ.

  Confucius

  Heart, Feet, Heaven

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking, Years, Forever

  "Why the essential collection Bradbury Stories explains how to live forever" by Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2013.

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• I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)

  Mary Pipher

  Men, Thinking, Feet

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• If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Believe, Water, Wish

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• What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

  Obert Skye

  Eye, Winter, Hungry

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• They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.

  Charlaine Harris

  Cute, College, Thinking

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.737, Penguin

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• Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Girl, Silly, Mean

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.43, Bantam

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