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“The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.”

Years Long Lasts Night Civilization Thirty Nazi Coming Back Last Night Thirty Years Back Again Prospering

Book:Cannibals and Christians

Source: Cannibals and Christians

“I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.”

Thinking Men Two Would Be Twenties Aging Plenty Thirty Fifty Meant To Be Fifteen Seventies

Book:Timebends: A Life

Source: Timebends: A Life

“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.”

Years Children Three Study Week Months Thirty Three Years Tolerate Love Each Other Thirty Years Three Months Squabbles

Author:Hippolyte Taine

“Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.”

Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

“Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.”

Fats Thirty Obesity

Author:Gelett Burgess

“Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.”

Men Forget Known Knowledge Identity Ten Thirty Forget Him

Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Years Looks Kind Has Beens Sometimes Next Forget Five Strange Painting Normal Thirty Five Years Oddities

Book:Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings

Source: Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings

“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.”

Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays

“Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.”

People Ifs Writing Whole Hands Pay Type Consequence Awful Thirty Heroic Compulsion

Book:Sex & Sensibility

Source: Sex & Sensibility

“Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't hold the attention of a dinner table for thirty seconds, even with a dirty joke.”

People Writing Attention Novel Talent Jokes Regard Tables Dinner Narrative Dirty Thirty Seconds Dinner Table Announcing Dirty Jokes

Book:Bad Or, the Dumbing of America

Source: Bad Or, the Dumbing of America

“I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro and you'll all die - in thirty years due to inhalation of secondhand smoke."”

Years Humor Hands Light Funny Dies Food Humorous Threat Dues Smoke Thirty Airline Thirty Years Lighters Disposable Air Travel Secondhand Smoke

Book:Peace Kills

Source: Peace Kills

“Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.”

World Should Faith Accepting Rich Lows Mouths Eight Treasure Esteem Thirty Cents Visitation Thirty Eight

Book:The Complete Sermons of Martin Luther: Volume 4

Source: The Complete Sermons of Martin Luther: Volume 4

“I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.”

Years Body Age Christian Jesus Christ Blood Jesus Christ Catholic Raised Thirty Sunday Vegetarian Communion Thirty Years Blood Of Jesus

Author:Joe Queenan

“I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.”

Writing Years Song College Music Is Years Ago And Love Dancing Thirty Setback Thirty Years Writing Songs Trance Freshman Freshman Year Writing Love Songs

Author:Nicholson Baker

“In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.”

Years House Five Hundred Thirty Pounds Thirteen Strands

Book:William Lilly's History of His Life and Times from the Year 1602 to 1681

Source: William Lilly's History of His Life and Times from the Year 1602 to 1681

“The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.”

Years Looks Realizing Notion Photograph Bother Thirty Thirty Years Old Photographs Thirty Years Old

Author:Christian Lacroix

“Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast.”

Energy Nations Percent Thirty Coast

Author:Bobby Jindal

“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?”

Years Next Thirty Afternoon Thirty Years Gatsby Love Great Gatsby American Dream

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.”

Faces Thirty Relief Maps Unhappiness American Woman Bewildered

Book:The Crack-up

Source: The Crack-up

“The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.”

People Trying Ideas Culture Records Rocks Movement Industry Thirty Rock And Roll Egalitarianism Not Trusting

Author:David Amram

“Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.”

Age Thirty

Author:Dido Armstrong

“It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.”

Knows Years Lasts Law Century Presses Thirty Quarters Protective Thirty Years

Author:Floyd Abrams

“In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!”

People Years Firsts Made School Space Five Groups Students Development Organization I Realized Thirty Organized Exploration Posters Campus Sophomore Mit Sophomore Year

Author:Peter Diamandis

“One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.”

Way Years Two Ideas Term Hours Millions Amount Thousand Equal Dollars Billions Thirty Two Years Seconds Passages Twelve Thousand Years Simplest Eleven Passage Of Time Year One

Author:Geoff Davis

“Yeah, I don't mess with chicks younger. They got to be almost thirty.”

Yeah Mess Thirty Chicks

Author:Mike Epps

“I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.”

Children Mother Courses Cities Four Wife Middle Grew Grew Up Golf Thirty Golf Course Wife Mother Middle Child

Author:Ree Drummond

“Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.”

Years Kind Today Pay Cost Years Ago Argument Thirty Minors Economist Inflation Reducing Thirty Years Inconvenience

Author:Martin Feldstein

“I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.”

Thinking Years Mean Thousand Sells Thirty Forty

Author:Neil Innes

“Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.”

Men Young Courses Stars Five He Man Tough Twenties Males Appeals Thirty Target Fifteen Ageing Twenty Five Demographics

Author:Kate Mulgrew

“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.”

Kids Actors Thirty 80s Cool Things

Author:Vincent Kartheiser

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