“It took Ireland thirty years to become an overnight success.”

“When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.”

“It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.”

“The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.”

“Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.”

“Waking up, at forty years old, had become somewhat difficult, not only that morning, but since he was thirty.”

“I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.”

“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway!”

“The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.”

“I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.”