Seventy Quotes

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Being seventy is not a sin.