Five Quotes

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

I always say that if I end up in a relationship where I feel like seventy-five percent of what I was looking for is there, then I've already won, then we're all winners in that relationship.

For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.

Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.

Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five.

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

I will read four or five books at the same time.

When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.

My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

The only thing I think about is getting ready for every five days, to go out and get ready for my team.

I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!

In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.

I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

I auditioned for four or five years and didn't get anything after that.

My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up.

Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.

For the last five years I've been in the production business.

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

Be fully present for five minutes every day.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

Every five years, I decide to learn something new.

I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over.

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.

Were you playing with Stuart?" she asked. The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.

When you're on a show for five years, everyone becomes friends. It's great.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.

Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago.