Browsing Topic Best Seventeen Quotes

During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’ I said, ‘I can!’ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.

I’ve made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you’re bored. The boredom will show in your work.

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the ‘Second Isaiah,’ who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.

By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn’t look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn’t listen to them.

I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella’s friend, David Tennant] wasn’t at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, ‘Oh, my friend’s a really, really big Doctor Who fan,’ and he replied, ‘Wait!’ He got his cheque book out and asked, ‘What his name?’ I said ‘David Tennant’. He wrote, ‘To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five’, signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, ‘He’ll know’

Then she yelled after the girl, ‘No, we haven’t seen any bald ‘uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of ’em went by. Arm in arm!

Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow.

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

No one’s serious at seventeen.

A crowned queen was never treated with more reverence than I was by those whole-souled western boys…And for seventeen long years I was just their little sister, sharing both their news of joy and sorrow from home.

The goal of dream study is to increase one’s contact with and access to the abilities of their subconscious mind. I became interested in dreams as an avenue to increase my knowledge of the subconscious mind, and increase my psychological and emotional effectiveness. I have been recording my dreams since I was seventeen.

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend — if possible, a deaf one.

I had a bad knee injury when I was about seventeen. I wasn’t able to climb for about six months. It was kind of like a transformative time for me, because it was really hard for me not to be able to climb. It forced me to appreciate things without just climbing.

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age…. I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.

A woman’s magazine quiz: Question: You decide to do the dread deed and just as things are starting to get hot he comes, rolls over, and asks, Was it good for you? You: a. Say, God, yes! That was the best seventeen seconds of my life b. Say, Sure, as good as it gets for me with a man. c. Put a Certs in your navel and say, That’s for you, Mr. Bunnyman. You can have it on your way back up, after the job is finished

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem’s life, before it wound down.

Which is a sad thing when you’re only seventeen.

It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he’s missing a lot by being like this – fear gives life a fillip. He wonders how it is he lost it all, and what there is – if anything – ever to bring it back.

You’re seventeen, Magnus said. You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.

And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she’d have very many kisses like that in her lifetime. Which is a sad thing when you’re only seventeen.

you’ve got to wish for something the whole time when you’re seventeen. You’ve got to, or there’s nothing to live for. However impossible you’ve got to think you want it. … When I couldn’t think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.

I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn’t understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.

When you’re seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you’re grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.

I started growing my hair in December ’89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain’t combing my hair no more. I don’t have too.

I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! ‘Cause my dad’s a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!

When you’re seventeen or eighteen, you bomb on in pre-season immediately, try to impress. But then at the end of pre-season because you were so fast at the beginning, your times aren’t getting any better and it looks like you actually aren’t getting fitter.

Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity.

You’re seventeen. You’re supposed to be dealing with school and hormones and dim-witted parents. You’re supposed to be finding out who you are as a person. But I already know who I am, Valkyrie said. I’m a world-breaker.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven’t touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.