Five Quotes

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.

I can never sit still for five minutes.

Five friends I had and two of them snakes.

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

I go to a poison registry and I find that no one has died from any overdose of any vitamins, herbs, or amino acids... But FIVE THOUSAND people end up dying from drug reactions in a single year.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn't know the name of the next street over.

The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

That's the hardest part of this whole process. The best part is picking the players and the worst part is telling basically five players they are not going to play tonight.

If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends.

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology.

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

Sarah Palin has been hired back by Fox News, and she only left five months ago. She has now effectively quit quitting. She can't even commit to being uncommitted.

You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.

Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match and then not come back for five days?

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace.