Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like your parents.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

30 is the new 20, unless you’re 20, then it’s the new 40.

Thirty – the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

When you’re a teenager, all you want to do is buy beer. But once you hit 30 all you want to do is to get carded.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

After 30, a body has a mind of its own.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that’s kind of a natural progression. But I’m definitely drawn to it. It’s probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

I’m turning thirty this year. And you know the saying, a woman over thirty is more likely to get hit by a bomb than find a man.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

At age 30, one receives strength.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Don’t trust anyone over thirty.

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years, months, days, hours, or minutes remain that Carpe Diem ‘is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

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

I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane... received by the ambassador, by the president of the United States. I should be the most honored man in your country.

When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.

UNICEF is such a special organization, and to spread the word just makes me so happy.

I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.

I don't feel 50. I'm still ambitious, and I've only just got my licence to race sports cars. I race for an Aston Martin team called Beechdean, and it's a huge challenge.

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women's representations of men are.

A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

I'm a gentleman.

All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.

Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.