Eighteen Quotes

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

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

I don't like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I'm eighteen, and I'm going to fall in love.

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.

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

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

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

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?