Eighteen Quotations

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into.

I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything. It was for 'Chicago.' There were probably three hundred people there.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

It's rare in the NBA, but I have a lot of young female fans from eight to eighteen because of the way I dress and the way I do my hair. People sometimes call me a pretty boy, but I embrace it. It's fun, and I guess it just kind of comes with being a good looking white guy in the league.

In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.

In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived.

Since I've been home-schooled since sixth grade, I've practiced six to seven hours a day. I wake up, practice for three hours in the morning, eat lunch, and then go out and play eighteen or more holes.

I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

One hundred and eighteen Tests and I think he is one of Australia's great players -- he will be one of the first people I meet with over the next day or so.

My first thought process was just keep it in the yard. Eighteen innings of baseball. That's unbelievable for two teams to go at it like that. It's the best game I've ever been a part of. I just want to keep learning and learning.

Let the golfing gods take their toll. Kiwis don't surrender, not until the fat lady sings. Eighteen holes is still a lot of holes to play and I'll be giving it 110 per cent.

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

If all the eighteen loads of vegetation became fruits, and the growing grass became sweet rice; if I were able to stop the sun and the moon in their orbits and hold them perfectly steady - even then, I would worship and adore You, and my longing to chant Your Praises would not decrease.

We made the decision to go down this path because we could see that Symbian was on the right track, ... Eighteen months ago, when we put the business plan together, there were still some question over the ownership of Symbian and whether the market share was going eventuate. But we made the bet that Symbian was going to be successful and we wanted to be part of that success. Now I think that is a forgone conclusion that Symbian will be successful. They are growing their customer base and the device volumes are getting into the very significant numbers.

Looking Back: An Eighteen Year Old Reflects on Life.

I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.

Some of our friends came and sat in with us, and it was just so much fun. We said, "Hey, let's do this once in a while." We did them every year for a while, then we took it on the road. We've done eighteen now, I think.

John was my buddy. We were just a few years apart. Eighteen months, in fact.

Over its 18-year history, the Index generated a net compound annualized return of 15.5% versus 12.0% for the S&P 500, marking eighteen consecutive years of positive annual performance for the Greenwich-Van Global Hedge Fund Index. This strongly suggests downside protection and diversification benefits of hedge funds within a comprehensive asset allocation plan can greatly enhance a portfolio's reward/risk profile.

Migration has slowed appreciably since 2003 and the residential construction market has caught up with the backlog; so the volume of house construction will return over the next eighteen months or so to levels close to those experienced before the migration surge hit.

When I think about eighteen months ago when this all began and how far we've come, I can't wait to see where we are eighteen months from now. It's also such an honor to have the baton of a number one song passed to us by an icon like Mariah Carey.

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

We've been in a lot of big games the last two years. What did we have, 24 wins last year? Eighteen this year? That's 42 wins with Scotty Aston at the point.

We actually laid eighteen hundred feet of water into the fire scene. We had to put two fire trucks in between the hydrant here at the end of Apache and the fire to relay the water in, something that is rarely done in Savannah.

What I tried to tell the kids is one game doesn't make a season. Eighteen wins, that's something to be proud of.

I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want.

Cruise ships provided over two million meals, plus housing for over 8,000 hurricane victims, first responders, and representatives from eighteen federal and state agencies. Carnival Cruise Lines, Captain Angelo Los, and the staff of both the Ecstasy and the Sensation have been tremendous partners with FEMA throughout this recovery process.

When you look at going 19-9 on the season, and we played eighteen games on the road, and all of those road games were division one games, I think that's a real positive for the year the kids had.

People go to jail now for what used to be considered a lesser crime, ... Eighteen months is more time than some violent criminals get in state prison.

Expedite the processing. It takes 36 months to get a building permit in Collier County. Eighteen months should be more than enough.

Without this edition, eighteen of Shakespeare's plays including some of his most famous like Macbeth, The Tempest and other plays would have been lost for all time. It's the only surviving source for eighteen of Shakespeare's plays. With regard to this particular copy of the first folio, it's remarkable because it's preserved in it's original seventeenth century binding. There's no other copy in the world in private hands preserved in a seventeenth century binding complete with all it's text leaves.

This record first closing exemplifies the continued success of Aurora. In the last eighteen months, Aurora has made investments in seven new companies, had three IPO's and four exits.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.

We have seen some really big winners this week. Today was no different. With one-day gains on the earnings picks from four to six percent and momentum picks up as much as eighteen percent, I am quite sure the users were happy.

This is something the man has done himself - it has nothing to do with the previous management. Eighteen months ago it was a pretty revolutionary target - it's good to get back to operational news again.

I hope we can join eighteen other states in saying that $5.15 an hour is not enough.

I'm not sure what it is. I've never had a knee injury as a pro. Eighteen years ago, or something like that, I hurt my left knee, but . . . we'll have to see, I'm not sure what it is.

I like his swing better than Tiger Woods, it's more compact. Eighteen is a very tender age in golf, but he looks to have the goods.

I'm not going to say anything nasty about golf. I have a standing offer - and I've told this to Bill and Mike - that if they ever do a charity golf thing again, I will get knickers and a tweed cap and, never having touched a golf club in my life, I will take mushrooms and do a full eighteen holes. As long as is televised.

At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the Utah State Industrial School For Boys... at age eighteen I was released as an adult.

It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

I wanted to quit the industry when I was eighteen and finish '70s', finish my contract on the show and go to college because I was pretty convinced that after '70s' and after being on a show for eight years that I would be very much pigeonholed for something specific that I didn't want to be a part of anymore.

It's been good for me. Full circle. Eighteen years ago, I was able to pitch my first game here.

Its idea of ''production value'' is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.

I know I was eighteen when I volunteered in '42. I never did feel that I did the wrong thing. I can imagine that he feels the same way.

The economic slowdown, coupled with on-going shifts in PC seasonality, clearly had a significant impact on our sales over the holiday weekend, ... We expect these issues will continue to have an effect on overall demand over the next twelve to eighteen months.

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

For me it's the perfect start to the championship. Eighteen points in two races is what I dreamed of before Bahrain.

Eighteen innings, to get eight hits. You're not going to win a lot of games.

Eighteen months ago, seven times out of 10, the short list for these large Unix environments was typically between HP and Sun. In the last six months, that has dramatically shifted to putting IBM much more frequently on that short list.

Eighteen months is a long time to just be out there playing in an open gym and not being coached. Not being able to work on your conditioning, your strength, your game the way you would be in an organized and disciplined situation.

Eighteen months out we have to go to developers and talk to them about the platform, talk to them about the tools and the architecture so that when the product ships there are amazing games available.

Eighteen months tops, everybody's gone. The accomplishments you've already achieved will fade away like butter in the sun. In the university world, if you pause for a while, and two or three years later, you say we can start again, you're farther back than you were when the whole enterprise began.

Eighteen scoring chances to 10. We can't have four goals in our net on 10 chances.

Eighteen years of excellence has earned Greenspan the benefit of the doubt when blame is being allocated.

Eighteen years we kept our baby out of trouble. He didn't do nothing wrong.

As a team, you just try to survive them because you hate what it does to your pitching staff a lot of times. Eighteen innings in a day with no off days around it are tough.

There's a persona to being an actress.... That could put anyone into the shrink's office. Especially if you're fifteen, sixteen, eighteen years old going through that; realizing that the job is to have a persona.

I covered everything. City general assignment, crime, politics, whatever. I worked on the rewrite desk for a time because I was quick and clean. My bread and butter was city crime and the drug culture in particular. You name it, I could give you eighteen inches of clean copy in twenty minutes on deadline.

You know how most people think that eggs are great sources of protein? Well, you only get about six grams from an egg, and about half of that is in the yolk and the other half is in the white. If instead you opt for a cup of lentils, you get a whopping eighteen grams of protein, plus all that fiber that makes you feel full and cleans out your body!

Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.

That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped.

Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.