Thirty Quotes

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.