Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others. . . And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born?
I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.
I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.
Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!
You are thirty minutes late. " "Yes. " "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No. " "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.
Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.
When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.
Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!
You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of the one hudred and forty days of school so far. " So thirty-one might be the magic number?" Principal Reed and Raven
I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.
If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.
I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!
I spent Christmas and the next thirty days in the hospital.
What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopper’s painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopper’s vision we see more.
There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.