#sixteen

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#because #everything #falling #had #i

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#america #bat #be happy #between #boy

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#part #sixteen #three #life

Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you’re the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you’re eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you’re eleven again, you’re sixteen again. You’re in a rowboat. You’re staring out the back of a car. Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening. ↗

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

#comic #eleven #graphic-novel #lost-at-sea #sixteen

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#i #mgm #sands #signed #sixteen

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. ↗

— David Hockney

#art #art school #i #old #school

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them. ↗

— Boy George

#closet #gay #had #i #knew

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#become #day #devotes #hard #himself

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that. ↗

— Kid Rock

#class #come #dad #got #grew

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#cent #corporate #fifteen #heads #hundred