Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno. " "Why Fresno?" "Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.
At seventeen most people get their ears pierced or get a tattoo or something slightly taboo. That is what I love about Rodrigo Garcia, he's not conventional. He's someone who sees people in extraordinary ways, and forgives them for being such.
Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.
When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.
But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.
It was very fortuitous that the show [True Detective] actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the show, I was gaining weight. When I'm playing fifty, I'm ten pounds heavier! I don't know if they thought maybe I was method? But it actually worked to my benefit.
Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
When I was seventeen I drank some very good beer I drank some very good beer I purchased With a fake ID My name was Brian McGee I stayed up listening to Queen When I was seventeen
The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time. ' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
Only the dead stay seventeen forever.
I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.
Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times. ' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!
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.
very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.
The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.
YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English. ' Get off of the car,' J. Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar. ' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J. Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.
Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.
