Quotes with 17-year-olds

Quotes 121 till 140 of 392.

  • Alfred Day Hershey I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
    - +
     0
  • Fred A. Allen I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
    - +
     0
  • Lillian Hellman I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
    - +
     0
  • Curtis Carlson I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bryan Adams I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
    - +
     0
  • Brooke Elliott I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bryce Dallas Howard I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
    - +
     0
  • A. E. van Vogt I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
    - +
     0
  • Brooke Burke I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bud Grant I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don't have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
    - +
     0
  • Anita Diamant I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • Katherine Anne Porter I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
    - +
     0
  • Augusten Burroughs I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
    - +
     0
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Busy Philipps I like starting off the new year fresh. I'm excited to see how 2013 turns out. Maybe because I'm an actress and I am always on a diet and fitness program, but my New Year's resolution is to let myself be nice to myself about my body.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Godfrey I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • W. C. Fields I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
    - +
     0
  • Henry David Thoreau I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
    - +
     0
  • Anne Tyler I spend about a year between novels.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
    - +
     0
All 17-year-olds famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 7)