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“I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.”

Knows Stars Know How International Eighteen

“Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet. A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man's life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?”

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“When I was in my first year of college at Logan, Utah, I bought an old car for a hundred dollars. I was eighteen and thought that I knew all about driving. It was Christmastime, and my parents were living on a ranch in Wyoming. I picked up my two grandmot.”

Years Firsts Two Parent Car College Hundred Dollars Driving Eighteen Living On Utah Wyoming Old Car

Author:F. Burton Howard

“Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and it would be impossible for the revolution to triumph. In these years [the eighteen years since the founding of the Party] the development, consolidation and bolshevization of our Party have proceeded in the midst of revolutionary wars; without armed struggle the Communist Party would assuredly not be what it is today. Comrades throughout the Party must never forget this experience for which we have paid in blood.”

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. That character was always the least fully realized. Eighteen years later, you realize, That's what he was about.”

Men Writing Years Kind Play Character Form Young Purpose Courses Realizing Son Crafts Young Man Eighteen

Author:Sam Shepard

“I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the window, looking out at the rain, and thinking how much I love you.'”

Thinking Today Young Love You Sitting Rain Window Letters British Young Women Eighteen Columbia British Columbia How Much I Love You

Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing a lot by being like this - fear gives life a fillip. He wonders how it is he lost it all, and what there is - if anything - ever to bring it back.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Long Sometimes Seems Lasts Lost Fear Wonder Missing Long Ago Eighteen Seventeen

Author:Cornell Woolrich

“Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped.”

Eighteen Dumped

Book:Summer by the Sea

Source: Summer by the Sea

“Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.”

Funny Six Twenties Racing Motor Eighteen Motor Racing

Author:Murray Walker

“Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.”

Years Doe Said Two Night Three Liberty Thousand Hundred Remains Witty Wit Fifty Stopping Eighteen Fractions Allowance Witty Sayings

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.”

“In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.”

Writing Literature Hours Genius Toil Tire Eighteen Oxen

Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.”

Men Kind Doe Two Waiting Ten Capitalism Twenties Get Back Twelve Businessman Eighteen

Book:A Bend in the River

Source: A Bend in the River

“All Quiet on the Western Front.”

“In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.”

Way Stills Country America Literature Months Built Decided West East Borders Jersey Eighteen New Jersey Miami Trailers East And West San Diego

Author:Leslie Charteris

“I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.”

Age Advertising Clock Eighteen

Author:Jan Karon

“I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.”

People Thinking Years Government Lost Periods Election Sake Conservative Kicks Eighteen

Author:Jeffrey Archer

“At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

Inspirational Looks Belief Five Conviction Hills Forty Hiding Caves Eighteen

Book:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.”

Play Moments Fun Golf Clubs Holes Catastrophe Jersey Brilliance Jimmy Eighteen Golf Clubs

Author:Mario Batali

“I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!”

Years Normal Celebrate Olympics Eighteen

Author:Tom Daley

“By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.”

Mean California Japan Eighteen Steam

Author:Townsend Harris

“Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.”

Years Firsts States Mother Born My Family Eighteen Manchester Blackpool

Author:John Mahoney

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