Thirty Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

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

And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Yeah, I don't mess with chicks younger. They got to be almost thirty.

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.