#thirty

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#activities #bed #canvas #different #eight

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#deal #did #folly #great #great deal

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#fifty #his #life #man #same

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#been #better #book #cases #come

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#know #last #law #lot #out

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty. ↗

— David Amram

#became #culture #egalitarian #entire #entire lives

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one. ↗

— Robert Brady

#ago #based #combat #controversial #discrimination

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week. ↗

— Bette Midler

#book #country #five #haul #horse

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#give #menu #metaphysics #page #restaurant

Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#am #fall #fire #gun #him