Mel Gibson

The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker.

Actor

Nelson Mandela

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

South African Statesman

Adele

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

English Singer

Kendrick Lamar

The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I'm a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.

American Musician

Brian McKnight

When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.

John Mellencamp

Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.

Delmore Schwartz

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

American Poet

Babe Ruth

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

American Baseball Player

Mary Wilson Little

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

American Writer

Jean-Paul Sartre

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

French Philosopher

Sixteen is often celebrated as a significant age milestone in many cultures, marking greater independence.

Age Milestone

Sixteen is part of numerical sequences; understanding its order helps with math and telling time.

Numerical Sequence

'Sweet Sixteen' is a cultural reference to a special birthday in some countries.

Sweet Sixteen

As an adjective, sixteen describes exact quantity and is used before nouns.

Quantity Context

'Sixteen' belongs to the 'teen' numbers; it helps indicate relatively small quantities.

Teen Number

Use sixteen for precision in quantity rather than 'about 15' or 'almost 20'.

Precision

 sixteen years old last year when I met her and she aspired to be a professional dancer and during the course of one of her dance rehearsals she fell on her outstretched arm and sprained her wrist now you would probably imagine as she did that a wrist sprain is a trivial event in a person's life rapid in an ace bandage takes some ibuprofen for a week

The mystery of chronic...

 interested in your theories about what that's about so there's a language of light in the deep ocean and we're just beginning to understand it and one way we're going about that is we're imitating a lot of these displays this is an optical lure that I've used we call it the electronic jellyfish it's just sixteen blue LEDs that we can

The weird, wonderful...

 to the midpoint of their clockwise neighbor. So, let me animate that for you. I'm going to call that the averaging step. So, now I've got eight points, they're a little bit smoother, my job is to make a smooth curve, so what do I do? Do it again. Split and average. So, now I've got sixteen points.

Pixar: The math behind...

 This is called ovulation, and it usually happens ten to sixteen days before the start of a period. The tiny oocyte moves along the fallopian tube. A pregnancy can only occur if the egg is fertilized by a sperm cell within the next 24 hours. Otherwise, the egg's escapade ends,

How menstruation works -...

 crucial for his body to keep up this is the lower right leg from a young bull moose fifteen or sixteen months old and I'm gonna break it to get the marrow out of course you can use a saw to get to the marrow but I found that by supporting the bone between two large

Fast Food PIPE Life Below...

 before I was sixteen. And each time I tried to read those books called "the feminist classics," I'd get bored, and I really struggled to finish them. But anyway, since feminism was un-African, I decided that I would now call myself "a happy African feminist."

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 some other cosmic tree sprouts it's the heavenly load it's the earthly load that means a load of riches like Jade Jade collars Jade ear ornaments are bestowed upon the nine sky supports of the Sun the sixteen supports of the Sun

Palenque and the Ancient...

 imagine when the Spanish conquistadores were sailing over those waters in the sixteen hundreds that coral was still was already large and growing and we were so happy we were so excited and then we got a call on the radio from

Enric Sala: Journey to...

 sixteen point seven million people that had their identity stolen sure and it's critical because Trust is what leads to collaboration our ancestors who grew up in villages and never left those small villages could

Technology that protects...

 a hundred and sixteen balls 26 frisbees and over 800 cloth animals but how does she do it on the mass are five items chaser knows