#seventeen

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#anyone #crocodile #does #endangered #example

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row. ↗

— Sam Kinison

#days #folks #i #row #seventeen

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#almost #attributable #centuries #century #distinguishes

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

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. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#bored #boredom #career #cops #death

When I was on 'All My Children,' we did a thing for 'Seventeen Magazine' where a girl won a date. I went to her prom with her in Alabama, and she was a sweetheart. I didn't move to Alabama and I didn't buy a farm there, but we still keep in touch. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#buy #children #date #did #farm

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! ↗

— John Foxe

#average #beings #burned #during #each

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#done #everything #excitement #feeling #much

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#baseball #course #did #get #golf

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#about #became #charlie #famous #feeling