#seventeen

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#because #everything #falling #had #i

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off. ↗

— Jim Dale

#applause #because #boy #burst #clap

I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#anything #feel #fifty #five #forty

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#country #home #i #now #second

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#embassy #hour #i #members #personally

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. ↗

— Max Lerner

#serious #seventeen #you

Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me… but in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen.. If I could keep today’s happiness… I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow.  ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#seventeen #change

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#seventeen #sixteen #sweet #sweet-sixteen #teens

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#been #catch #completely #constitution #had

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#books #especially #girl #oxford #seventeen