Eighteen Quotes

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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.

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.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

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?

Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.

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.

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

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

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 have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

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

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

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.