Top 284 Seventeen Quotes & Sayings

Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis seventeen times in a row.

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

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.

I've been an actor since the age of seventeen.

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

To convey one’s mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic

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.

Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.

I was on 'In Search of the Partridge Family,' MTV'S 'Miss Seventeen,' and the comedy 'Love Monkey.'

I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.

How old are you?” she asked. My answer was automatic and ingrained. “Seventeen.” “And how long have you been seventeen?” I tried not to smile at the patronizing tone. “A while,” I admitted. “Okay,” she said, abruptly enthusiastic. She smiled up at me.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'

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

No one's serious at seventeen.

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.

This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.

How old are you?” “Seventeen,” he answered promptly. “And how long have you been seventeen?” His lips twitched as he stared at the road. “A while,” he admitted at last.

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'.

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.

Song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is actually about syphilis.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

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!

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think.

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

Only the dead stay seventeen forever.

I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left.

You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.

I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death.

When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.

At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

Oh my God, I used to love 'Just Seventeen'. My treat was to go to Woolworths with my pocket money and get 'Just Seventeen' and a packet of Juicy Fruit.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

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

Seventeen years is a long time to be playing this game. It's two careers for a lot of people.

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

I did act as a kid, but I quit when I was seventeen.

Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

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

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.

My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.