#sixteen

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it. ↗

— Adele

#any #been #cold #curtain #day

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#back #damned #eighty #entire #ever

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

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone. ↗

— Mark McGwire

#hit #me #milestone #more #only

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist. ↗

— Helena Rubinstein

#fine #makeup #over #remember #rule

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing. ↗

— Marie Carmichael Stopes

#beauty #credit #doing #own #sixteen

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ↗

— Marie Stopes

#beauty #credit #doing #own #sixteen

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

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#seventeen #sixteen #sweet #sweet-sixteen #teens

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#commissioners #competence #countries #credibility #each