Five Quotes

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - "I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!"

Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.

When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

Have you ever dated a Goth chick for four or five months until you realized she was just an Orthodox Jew? They have the same costumes.

I love old, vintage cars. I've got a 1936 Dodge Touring Sedan right now and there's only five of them registered in the world, and I absolutely love working on it. It's gorgeous.

It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.

I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.

Only five NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting their minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.

Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.

The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.

Baseball is like this. Have one good year and you can fool them for five more, because for five more years they expect you to have another good one.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!

Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

It's a game everybody plays. If you see a man with a beard and holler "Beaver!" it's five points. And if you see a man with a moustache, it's onlI three points.

I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.

Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.