Thirty Quotes

For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

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.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

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.

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.

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.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

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

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

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!

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

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.

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.