Five Quotes

A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.

There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Thinking is more precious than all five senses.

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years, and he could have it earlier.

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.

I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?

When you walk up five flights of stairs at four in the morning, there's definitely a hooker involved.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.

Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

It was five, but it could have been six, seven or eight goals, in my opinion.

I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.

I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again.

The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened!

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day

I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

I have a sixth sense, but not the other five. If I wasn't making money, they'd put me away.

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

Your brand's power lies in dominance. It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.

Everyone always says that guys are intimidated by me, but I seriously doubt it. I mean, I'm five-foot-nothing!

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.