#thirty

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. ↗

— John Cage

#boring #discovers #eight #eventually #four

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#business #earlier #five #grown #had

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#argued #cost #economists #high #inconvenience

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#fallen #his #i #interest #long

For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. ↗

— David Cassidy

#audiences #back #been #five #following

In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#articles #assembly #december #discussion #draft

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#difference #experience #feel #forty #french

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#could #learn #meeting #more #ourselves

All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#after #i #know #learned #thirty

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? ↗