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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
John Cage
The natur o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.
George Eliot
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
Truman Capote
I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
Margaret Atwood
Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
Elizabeth Gaskell
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.
Athenaeus
How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?
Alice Cooper
Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
Kurt Vonnegut
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
Mario Cuomo
Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.
Arthur Hugh Clough
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
Mary Augusta Ward
A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds And see the world in endless sleep The Hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap A single choice shall end his days Olympus to preserve or raze.
Rick Riordan
Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.
Stephen Chbosky
I have no words. Sixteen languages, but no words. -Vishous.
J.R. Ward
All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.
Donald Dunn
Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.
John Mellencamp
Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.
Olga Korbut
And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.
Olga Korbut
My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.
Ryan White
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
Solomon Burke
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