Sixteen Quotes

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.

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

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.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

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

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.

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

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.