Oh, I've wasted my life

[Adrian]

You're how old? By your age I had accomplished this much (http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/).

I want to be 23 again. It was just last year ;)

"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."
Tom Lehrer

[Momo]

At my age, Jim Bakker, former PTL minister, was convicted of fraudulently raising $158 million in contributions.

I can assure you, I am proud that I haven't accomplished that. ;) :D

[David]

Actually, that wasn't quite as alarming as I'd imagined it would be! I suspect it's worse the younger you are since usually you can think, "Hey, I've got the rest of my life to make something of myself!" but it's sobering to see someone else who's made it big while their wisdom teeth are still gum-bound.

[Krey20]

At age 23:

John Singleton directed his first film, "Boyz 'N the Hood."

T. S. Eliot wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

John Keats wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn," which ends with the lines, "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. "

English poet Jane Taylor wrote "Twinkle, twinkle, little star."

Margaret Mead traveled to the South Seas as part of a "giant rescue operation" to study primative cultures before they perished.

Russian-American pianist Vladimir Horowitz made a spectacular concert debut when, impatient with the conductor's slow pace, he ran away from the conductor's tempo and finished Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 several bars ahead of time.

Novelist, playwright, and short-story writer Carson McCullers wrote her acclaimed first book, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

Truman Capote published his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms.

Orson Welles produced and performed his "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast, terrifying millions of people. He also got his face on the cover of Time Magazine.

Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Masters.

Francois-Louis Cailler manufactured the world's first eating chocolate to be commercially produced.

By age 23 Marieanne McKeown survived cancer, raised £5,000 for Sri Lankan orphans and spent five weeks taking care of them in Sri Lanka.

The world is full of over-achievers :grumble:

[megustaleer]

Richard Milhouse Nixon resigned in disgrace, the first U.S. President ever to quit office.

Gerald Ford issued a full, free and absolute pardon to Richard Nixon.
Now I don't feel so bad about having done nothing to get myself noticed!

[Lady Lazarus]

At my age (30 :ssh: )...

Mark Twain published his first short story, "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog."

Dr. Narinder Kapany invented fiber optics and designed a glass gastroscope which can be snaked down the throat for a detailed view of the stomach.

Hank Williams overdosed on drugs and alcohol.

Bill Gates was the first person ever to become a billionaire by age 30.

hmm... but as David says, I still have a little while left to write my novel and make my fortune ;)

[Hazel]

At age 32:

Penniless and unemployed, Buckminster Fuller decided against suicide, resolving instead to live out the rest of his life as an experiment to see what one person could do to help humanity.

By the time of his death at age 32, Alexander the Great had conquered almost the entire known world.

Composer, conductor and painter E. T. A. Hoffmann began to write the tales for which he is now primarily remembered.

English artist and poet William Blake wrote and illustrated "Songs of Innocence."

Johann Rudolf Wyss wrote "The Swiss Family Robinson."

English parson Thomas Robert Malthus wrote his "Essay on the Principles of Population."

But did any of them manage stop biting their nails? I did - (insert smug smiley).

[David]

By the time of his death at age 32, Alexander the Great had conquered almost the entire known world.
You've definitely got some catching up to do there, Hazel!

Still, Alexander actually died just before he hit 33! Allegedly from blood poisoning after lesions caused by excessive biting of the fingernails became infected...

[Hazel]

Still, Alexander actually died just before he hit 33! Allegedly from blood poisoning after lesions caused by excessive biting of the fingernails became infected...

Aahh you see...it's the littlest things...

[Jen]

Pah! Who cares about the guy who invented Ohm's Law anyway? No-one, that's who.

[Momo]

Pah! Who cares about the guy who invented Ohm's Law anyway? No-one, that's who.Except for Mr. Ohm, maybe. ;)

[MarkC]

After four years, Michelangelo finally finished painting the ceiling.

Jersey Joe Walcott became the oldest man ever to win the world's heavyweight boxing title.

Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield, considered to be his greatest work.

Esther ("Eppie") Pauline Friedman Lederer took over the "Ann Landers" advice column. Her twin sister, Pauline Phillips, began writing the "Dear Abby" column under the pseudonym Abigail Van Buren. They became known for their common sense advice on subjects such as not pretending to be someone you're not.

Opera singer Beverly Sills finally achieved international prominence in a production of Handel's Julius Caesar.

Earl Vickers became the first person to translate the entire Bible into Pig Latin.

Most of those I've never heard of, nor would I want to emulate them (no desire at all to write an advice column, sing opera or translate the bible into Pig Latin :p ), so I'm not too unhappy.

At age 37, I won my class at a round of the British Sprint championship and got three rather embarassing and largely untrue paragraphs in an article in "Motorsport News". So that's my 15 minutes of fame gone :rolleyes:

[Momo]

At age 37, I won my class at a round of the British Sprint championship and got three rather embarassing and largely untrue paragraphs in an article in "Motorsport News". So that's my 15 minutes of fame gone :rolleyes:Congratulations!
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