Zitat des Tages über Siebzig / Seventy:
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.
I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
Being seventy is not a sin.
Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.
I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.
Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.
For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction.
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
The wild open-market theory that died in 1929 had a run of just over thirty years. Communism, a complete melding of religious, economic, and global theories, stretched to seventy years in Russia and forty-five years in central Europe, thanks precisely to the intensive use of military and police force.