Eighteen Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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?

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.