All Quotes

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
‐‐ Tori Amos

At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and eventually AC/DC.
‐‐ Rick Rubin

At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston - it was kind of random.
‐‐ Solange Knowles

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

At 150 pounds, I feel like I'm at my healthiest and my strongest and my most beautiful.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?
‐‐ Anna Kournikova

At 16, every boyfriend I had I was going to marry.
‐‐ Jessica Simpson

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.
‐‐ Philipp Meyer

At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.
‐‐ Aaron Patzer

At 16, I started reading trashy stuff, anything slightly naughty and risque.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn't really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

At 16, I would wear clothes that hid my body; now I've found clothes that fit me rather than cover me. I'm not skinny, but I'm healthy, and you have to embrace what you've been given.
‐‐ Ella Henderson

At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.
‐‐ Caroline Lawrence

At 17, I already had responsibility because I took care of my family, but in the football I was young; I wasn't experienced or the captain - I was just in the team.
‐‐ Pele

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
‐‐ Tony Curtis

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cockroach-infested flophouses. In my early 20s, I went on to thumb rides through Europe, readily sleeping in train stations, my backpack as a pillow. Once I even hunkered down for a night on a sidewalk grate - for warmth - in Paris.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.
‐‐ Prince Royce

At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children.
‐‐ Mary Berry

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.
‐‐ Leymah Gbowee

At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.
‐‐ Jessica Brown Findlay

At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
‐‐ Andrew Wyeth

At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.
‐‐ Delta Goodrem

At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.
‐‐ Meghan Trainor

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now, my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson .357 Magnum - that gun weighed more than I did!
‐‐ Susana Martinez

At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.
‐‐ Rivers Cuomo

At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

At 18, I was attracted to bad boys.
‐‐ Carmen Electra

At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'
‐‐ Laurence Yep

At 18 to 20, I was probably one of the quickest things around, at the peak of my powers.
‐‐ Michael Owen

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
‐‐ Jim Bishop

At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.
‐‐ Gio Gonzalez

At 19, I went to live in the Philippines for three years as a U.S. Air Force 'dependent spouse.' I lived off-base in Angeles City and had to haul water for drinking and cooking.
‐‐ Therese Fowler

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.
‐‐ Hugh Bonneville

At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.
‐‐ Lawrence Sanders

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.
‐‐ Samantha Fox

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.
‐‐ Rita Levi-Montalcini

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
‐‐ Simon Cowell

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
‐‐ Tahar Ben Jelloun

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.
‐‐ Brad Gilbert

At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
‐‐ Eddie Perez

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.
‐‐ John Darnielle

At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
‐‐ Saffron Aldridge

At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.
‐‐ Frank Cady