“ There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating? ”
- Andy Rooney- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis. ”
- George Montgomery- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Dawn Wells, who is Mary-Ann, has a cookbook out, which is really a lot of fun. It's got thirteen coconut cream pie recipes. ”
- Bob Denver- Copy
- 677
“ Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs. ”
- Thomas Carper- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
- 3.5K
“ There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom. ”
- Ben Affleck- Copy
- 272
“ It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives. ”
- Jill Ruckelshaus- Copy
- 522
“ To win in this country these days you have got to campaign down to a thirteen year-old's level of mental development. ”
- Willie Brown- Copy
- 1.7K
“ For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 2.3K
“ It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 1.8K
“ He rose at thirteen minutes to one, and directed his steps towards the large hall, a sumptuous apartment adorned with lavishly-framed paintings. A flunkey handed him an uncut Times, which he proceeded to cut with a skill which betrayed familiarity with this delicate operation. ”
- Jules Verne- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division. ”
- Jan Ehrenwald- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall. ”
- Max Lerner- Copy
- 4K
“ An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. ”
- James Keller- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Minerva House… was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. ”
- George William Curtis- Copy
- 3.5K
“ It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. ”
- Eric Blair- Copy
- 2.1K
“ In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations … If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world. ”
- Walter Wink- Copy
- 2.9K
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