#teen years

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#adolescence #convinced #everyone #first #fourteen

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet. ↗

— Alan King

#fifteen #last #live #longer #spend

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#concert #electricity #endings #fifteen #fried

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#i #like #old #parents #still

I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

#davis #fifteen #got #heard #him

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#being #believe #come #country #foreign

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#been #before #different #each #fascinated

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#company #during #encompassing #ever #fifteen

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop. ↗

— Bon Scott

#fifteen #had #i #intent #road

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