Thirty famous quotes

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
-- Alistair Maclean

#Book #Thirty #Flats

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
-- Ben Hecht

#Names #Hollywood #Thirty

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.
-- Bill Wyman

#Twenties #Advertising #Thirty

Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast.
-- Bobby Jindal

#Energy #Thirty #Coast

When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Enough #Thirty #Young

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.
-- Calvin Trillin

#Numbers #Looks #Thirty

She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.
-- Cherie Priest

#Looks #Thirty #Minutes

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 #Thirty

Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.
-- Cynthia Asquith

#People #Thirty #Born

I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.
-- Daphne du Maurier

#World #Nine #Thirty

Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.
-- Delia Ephron

#Taken #Thirty #Worst

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.
-- Dido Armstrong

#Age #Thirty

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.
-- Eva Longoria

#Thinking #Sexuality #Thirty

...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.
-- Francine Rivers

#Thirty #Miles #Walks

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.
-- Gelett Burgess

#Obesity #Thirty #Fats

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
-- Georges Clemenceau

#Keys #Experience #Thirty

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.
-- H. P. Lovecraft

#Dream #Keys #Thirty

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.
-- Hanif Kureishi

#Eight #Thirty

You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.
-- J. L. Carr

#Years #Statistics #Thirty

Thirty-two coups d'etat are enough.
-- Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#Two #Enough #Thirty

Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it
-- Jean-Paul Belmondo

#Inspiration #Men #Thirty

Don't trust anyone over thirty
-- Jerry Rubin

#Thirty

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.
-- John Lanchester

#People #Fifty #Thirty

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
-- Julia Child

#Years #Seven #Thirty

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.
-- Justin Cronin

#Two #World #Thirty

Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.
-- Kim Harrison

#Years #Grass #Thirty

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
-- Leon Blum

#Children #Twenties #Thirty

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.
-- Mark Steel

#Thirty #Sensible

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.
-- Mickey Rooney

#Boys #Years #Thirty

Yeah, I don't mess with chicks younger. They got to be almost thirty.
-- Mike Epps

#Chicks #Thirty #Yeah

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
-- Nastassja Kinski

#Family #Vision #Thirty

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.
-- Paul Haggis

#Years #Four #Thirty

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.
-- Randolph Bourne

#Heart #Twenties #Thirty

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
-- Ridley Scott

#Thirty #Amazed

Thirty, I really like you but I still have to see other people.
-- Rita Rudner

#People #Like You #Thirty

If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.
-- Robin Sloan

#Sound #Thirty #Impressive

Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.
-- Rupert Sheldrake

#Middle #Thirty #Workshops

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
-- Terry Brooks

#Years #Different #Thirty

I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.
-- Thayer David

#Thinking #Twenties #Thirty

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

#Thirty

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.
-- Vincent Kartheiser

#Kids #Actors #Thirty

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald

#People #Thirty #Significance

I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.
-- Charles Busch

#Appreciation #Saws #Thirty

I grew up thirty miles down the highway in San Marcos, and I've still got family there, so I guess I'm pretty well rooted.
-- Elizabeth Crook

#Grew Up #Thirty #Miles

I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.
-- Jennifer O'Neill

#Eight #Christ #Thirty

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.
-- Romain Rolland

#Men #Thirty

I spent Christmas and the next thirty days in the hospital.
-- Ryan White

#Next #Thirty #Hospitals

I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year.
-- John Flansburgh

#Song #Years #Thirty