Thirteen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I started writing when I was about thirteen.
-- Al Purdy

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Elvis lived here until thirteen and nobody can really take that from us!
-- Henry Dodge

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Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
-- Ida Lupino

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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
-- Ringo Starr

#Drummer #Thirteen #Wanted
But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.
-- Ruben Blades

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I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.
-- Ryan White

#Years #Faces #Thirteen
Amazing, then, how with that one remark, he made a mortifying situation thirteen times worse.
-- Tessa Dare

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All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
-- Victoria Wood

#Want #Thirteen #Colour

What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.
It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.
Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.
Ther average consumer does not know the difference between the browser, the internet, and the search box.
At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.
Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
I like television medium because it feels like we're doing a play, and I learned how to act in theater school, so that comes very naturally to me, this format. I like that people can laugh out loud when we're working. I like that we can make mistakes, unlike being onstage, where you can't.
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.
We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.