Thirty Eight Quotes:

Oh, look at this. NBC/Wall Street Journal: "Thirty-eight percent of the American people say [Donald] Trump's comments about women disqualify him from being president."

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Wall, Nbc, Eight, Wall Street Journal, Thirty Eight

Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.

- Martin Luther

source: Luther, Martin (2000). “The Complete Sermons of Martin Luther: Volume 4”, p.309, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

topic: Faith, Eight, World, Visitation, Thirty Eight

I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.

- Jennifer O'Neill

topic: Eight, Christ, Thirty, Thirty Eight

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.473, e-artnow

topic: Eight, Two, Twenties, Four Generations, Thirty Eight

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.513, Courier Corporation

topic: Eight, Weather, Ideas, Cold Weather, Thirty Eight

Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them?

- Marjorie Dannenfelser

source: "The Intensity Gap". Interview with Kelefa Sanneh, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2014.

topic: Children, Eight, Tomorrow, Thirty Eight, Oh My Gosh

I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four...

- Mindy Kaling

topic: Sexy, Eight, Four, Thirty Eight

And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.

- Dorothy Dunnett

topic: Religious, Fighting, Knights, Exponents, Thirty Eight

The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.

- Ellen Swallow Richards

topic: Moving, Knowledge, Eight, Physiology, Thirty Eight

A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.

- L. Ron Hubbard

source: L. Ron Hubbard (1987). “Self Analysis”, p.48, Bridge Publications, Inc.

topic: Pain, Past, Eight, Mental Pain, Broken Down

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

- Guy Lafleur

topic: Eight, Years, Want, Thirty Eight

A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

- Marcia Angell

topic: Eight, Drug, Example, Antidepressants, Clinical Trials

So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor. . . . When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.

- Billie Holiday

topic: Mom, Jobs, Believe, Thirty Eight

Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

topic: Eight, Tools, Purpose, Thirty Eight, Revolver

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

- Hanif Kureishi

topic: Eight, Thirty, Thirty Eight

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Powerful, Beer, Eight, Thirty Eight, New Ways

Mrs. Zuppa was coming in from bingo just as I was leaving the building. "Looks like you're going to work," she said, leaning heavily on her cane. "What are you packin'?" "A thirty-eight." "I like a nine-millimeter myself." "A nine's good." "Easier to use a semiautomatic after you've had hip replacement and you walk with a cane," she said. One of those useful pieces of information to file away and resurrect when I turn eighty-three.

- Janet Evanovich

source: Janet Evanovich (2010). “Four to Score”, p.86, St. Martin's Press

topic: Eight, Leaving, Three, Bingo, Thirty Eight

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

- Dave Barry

topic: Basketball, Past, Years, Dunking, Funny Basketball

Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

- Lorrie Moore

source: FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 25, 2011

topic: Philosophy, Eight, Stupidity, Stages Of Life, Thirty Eight

Feeling attractive didn't come until I was 29... What is it about a woman being in her late 30s that brings out the "Oh, my gosh, are you worried?" questions? Worried? What about? Thirty-eight, 39, 40, 50! Great! Still alive!

- Kate Beckinsale

topic: Eight, Feelings, Alive, Thirty Eight, Oh My Gosh

It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

source: Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.15, Harper Collins

topic: Eight, Years, People, Thirty Eight

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

topic: Life, Brother, First Love, Euclid, Source Of Happiness

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

- Annie Lennox

topic: Birthday, Mean, Uganda, Life Expectancy, Expectancy