Nate Dogg - Thirty days after high-school graduation, I went straight into the Marines.

Jens Lekman - I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five, I think, but I went to Germany when I was 17 to have a little adventure after graduation.

Sophie Tucker - From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five

Nastassja Kinski - I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

Davy Jones - It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

Quentin Tarantino - When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.

Tennessee Williams - What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

Kelly Clarkson - I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.

Alok Nath - I did schooling and graduation from Delhi and then went to the National School of Drama.

John L. Phillips - There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

Estelle - No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

Tim O'Brien - I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

Parker Conrad - Some days you're the fire hydrant, and some days you're the dog.

James A. Murphy - It’s not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It’s that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where every day is your Saturdays

Tony Finau - I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.

Martha Reeves - The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.