Sixteen Quotes

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.

And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

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

Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks.