Thirty Quotes - Page 37

• Aunt B walked out onto the helipad wearing loose yoga pants. “I’m just here to stretch. Kate, want to help?” “Sure.” Thirty seconds later, as I was flying through the air, I decided that this wasn’t the best idea.

  Ilona Andrews

  Yoga, Aunt, Air

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.44, Penguin

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• A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly insignificant in comparison to that poor man (thirty!) crashing to the ground for the freedom that Cecilia took for granted, but right now, she couldn’t pause to honor his memory, because a last-minute change of party theme was unacceptable. That’s what happened when you had freedom. You lost your mind over a pirate party.

  Liane Moriarty

  Memories, Party, Men

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• So. You refuse my money, you serve me thirty-year-old Highland Park scotch, and we've been in the same room for approximately five minutes, yet none of my bones are broken. This leads me to believe that your back is against the wall and you desperately need me for something. I'm dying to know what that is.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Believe, Scotch

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• I'm almost thirty and my day job is folding shirts at the Gap. Have you seen my room? I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Jobs, Gaps, Rooms

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.25, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Time, Twelve, Awful

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• You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Fashion, Rest Of Your Life

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• It has taken more than a hundred scientists two years to find out how to make the product in question; I have been given thirty days to create its personality and plan its launching. If I do my job well, I shall contribute as much as the hundred scientists to the success of this product.

  David Ogilvy

  Jobs, Business, Taken

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Senior, Learning

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!

  Robert Stephen Hawker

  Men, Patriotism, Reason Why

  "Song: Cornish patriotic song". 1824.

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• Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

  James D. Watson

  Science, Talking, Years

  James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Years, Giving

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• But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

  Judith Viorst

  Girl, Age, Trying

  Judith Viorst (1970). “It's hard to be hip over thirty and other tragedies of married life”

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• I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Years, Wife

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.417, Penguin

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• That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, 4th Of July, Men

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Heart, Twenties, Want

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• The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

  George Orwell

  Children, Real, Thinking

  George Orwell (2017). “The Collected Non-Fiction”, Penguin UK

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• No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Past

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• It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Lying, Hard Work, Ideas

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• The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

  Alfred Adler

  Life, Work, Math

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• The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

  Charles Kuralt

  Rain, Illinois, Years

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• If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.

  Jean Rostand

  Book, Science, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

  E. O. Wilson

  Years, Humanity, Dollars

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. November 17, 2006.

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• I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

  Camille Desmoulins

  Jesus, Age, Three

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• Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Strong, Atheist, Philosophy

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• War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

  Peter Kropotkin

  War, Hands, Years

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