Nearing 30 Quotes

#1. When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#2. It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores.

Christina Baker Kline

#3. During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds - and a warmer world.

Henrik Svensmark

#4. Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

James Stephens

#5. We just do as we're told we should. High school, college, job, marriage, kids. Like, one size fits all.

Cara McKenna

#6. A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

Rick Larsen

#7. He pulled out handcuffs and snapped them around my wrists. "Where's your bag? You didn't bring your staff?"
"I have it. It's hidden." Charlie was currently tucked inside the leg of my Harry Potter pajama bottoms, which were beneath my jeans, but that fell under the category of TMI.

Suzanne Johnson

#8. Taking a shower often solved problems for her. She would find herself with thoughts that seemed to come from outside her, thoughts that would question decisions or offer suggestions or just consider life hazily in a way that made it seem like the thoughts could not possibly be her own.

Joseph Fink

#9. Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never.

H.L. Mencken

#10. When we treat God as a different identity, our thought process becomes dualistic in nature. This is due to the self ignorance, ego and immaturity; in simple words, less knowledge about our own immortality.

Vishal Chipkar

#11. How could you leave me behind to explode?"
"Er," Alice said, "I'm not sure how to--"
"Oh--you have a clockwork cat. This is very nice. I will forgive you if I may pet the cat.

Steven Harper Piziks

#12. Someone once told me that part of you lives on so long as somebody remembers you.

Justin Cronin

#13. When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."

Heywood Broun

#14. My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Sigmund Freud

#15. That destiny is not reserved for a few chosen ones. Each man has a destiny. Recognizing it and fulfilling it are the purpose of a man's life.

Robin Hobb