Seventeen Quotes

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen. (Mick Jagger)
I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic. View quote
Eric Bogosian
It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries. View quote
Edward Gibbon
What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair... Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn't enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do. View quote
Mary Martin
How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal? View quote
Alice Cooper
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. View quote
Ray Bradbury
You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it. View quote
Ray Bradbury
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land. (Jerry Saltz)
Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high quality of the original product, it doesn't show a hint of dating. Neither [Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope nor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi] were able to match the narrative scope of Empire, which today remains one of the finest and most rousing science fiction tales ever committed to the screen. View quote
James Berardinelli
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. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation. View quote
Satyajit Ray
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents. View quote
Nikola Tesla
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. View quote
Mary Augusta Ward
Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen. View quote
Cinda Williams Chima
T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice. View quote
Betty Buckley
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. View quote
Henry Mayhew
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. View quote
Janis Ian
I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep dancing at the level I wanted to. It wasn't like, 'Oh my god, I'll never play the violin again.' I could, but not at the level I wanted. So, I segued into acting, the other thing that was also meaningful to me. (Kristin Lehman)
I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago. View quote
Olga Korbut
Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons. View quote
R. Lee Ermey
I got $25 from Reader's Digest last week for something I never said. I get credit all the time for things I never said. You know that line in You Bet Your Life? The guy says he has seventeen kids and I say: "I smoke a cigar, but I take it out of my mouth occasionally"? I never said that. View quote
Groucho Marx
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years. View quote
Adrien Brody