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

- Dane Cook

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

- David Sedaris

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.

- Eric Bogosian

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

- Gordon Parks

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

- Hussein of Jordan

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

- Hakeem Olajuwon

I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.

- Joe Paterno

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

- John Ortberg

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

- Max Lerner

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

- Mickey Gilley

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.

- Noel Redding

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

- Robert Indiana

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

- Sam Kinison

I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.

- Tift Merritt

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

- Will Hobbs