Thirty Quotes - page 2

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it. (Marguerite Duras)
[Same-sex marriage] is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I am not understating that. View quote
Michele Bachmann
If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both. View quote
George Best
I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music. View quote
Ernest Gellner
In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs. View quote
Lewis Black
In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so. View quote
David Attenborough
Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made a least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated. View quote
Anthony James Leggett
We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices. View quote
Cyrano de Bergerac
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three.” Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers. (Constantine P. Cavafy)
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus. View quote
Benito Mussolini
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! View quote
Kevin Spacey
By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I am past thirty, and three parts iced over. View quote
Matthew Arnold
I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. View quote
Oscar Wilde
In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists. View quote
Robert Fisk
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. View quote
Vernor Vinge
Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights. (Jane Austen)
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality. View quote
Stephen King
You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful - our own innocence. View quote
Pauline Kael