Best Nineteen Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry

“... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.”

Years Turns Boys Ten Difficulty Twenties Nine Nine Years Nineteen Immaturity

Author:John Boyne

“Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.”

Men Years Wells Half Study Teacher Singers Nineteen Half A Year

Author:Betty Buckley

“The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.”

War Becoming Accurate Mislead Nineteen Oceania

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.”

Thinking Law Culture Force Isolated Splits Nineteen Jewish Culture Jewish Law

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.”

Ifs Humans Forever Conditions Insanity Controlled Prevailing Nineteen Ignorance In 1984 Human Equality

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.”

Paradise Florida Mermaid Nineteen Unexplored Midwesterners Citrus Northerners

Author:Anne Hull

“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.”

“Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.”

Age Middle Aging Mature Middle Ages Rowing Nineteen

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that they lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Loses Human Beings Share Theory Perspective Behavior Argument Sight Silly Enormous Twelve Emerging Freeze Suitable Nineteen Bakers Silliness Eclairs

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.”

Years Might Forever Internet Bounds Free Speech Sooner Or Later Concealed Nineteen Dodge Thought Police

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.”

“Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain. These are things I did with no consequences, no repercussions. My nineteen detentions were for smart answers and missed homework. There is no equivalent punishment for making the world a stranger place.”

World Two Answers Thousand Smart Consequence Garden Gold Fishes Stranger Seeds Punishment Locals Fountain Bugs Homework Repercussions Nineteen Detention Planters Marigolds

Author:Brenna Yovanoff

“I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.”

Trying Persons Reason Film Young Felt Personality Directors Degrees Twenties Shy Right Person Nineteen Film Directors

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I've maintained old friendships, like with people I knew in the nineteen-seventies, but have lost the knack for meeting new people. This has a lot to do with my writing schedule. I don't want to be disturbed, and the willingness to be disturbed is, I think, part of being a good friend.”

People Thinking Want Writing Lost Meetings Willingness Good Friend Schedules Seventies Disturbed Old Friends Nineteen Knack Meeting New People Being A Good Friend Old Friendship

Author:David Sedaris

“I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!”

Said Cutting Fashion Bowls Nineteen Hairdos

Author:Agnes Varda

“But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.”

Source: The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four

“If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.”

Ifs Trying Eye Lost Cases Worst Theater Theatre Elephants Playwright Crossings Nineteen Alps Snowstorms

Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.”

People Done Night Names Existence Records Forgotten Usual One Time Denied Register Nineteen Thought Police

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“I had a lot of different jobs between fifteen and nineteen. I'd moved out of my house way, way younger than I should have. So I was living out on my own with my brother when I'd just turned sixteen. I did busboy stuff, and worked in warehouses, and did odd jobs, and stuff. I earned me some Pesos.”