Five Quotes

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League.

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

Being able to help, being able to go out there every five games, is definitely something I was waiting for.

This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!

I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.

Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances.

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.

Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?

Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.

I had my neck hurt for like five years, I could barely move my neck from doing this stunt, I almost died twice doing stunts, it's really dangerous.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been cancelled. What the hell was I fighting for?

No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.

I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.

Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.

For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights.

Proud parents to two children Grandparents to five more Who visit the "Harper Bakery" It's Gran's cooking they all adore

The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.

It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.

[John McCain] didn't believe me. I think anybody who's been in a POW camp for five years can - take eight minutes on The Daily Show.

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.

By releasing these five top Taliban commanders, the U.S. is demonstrating that it is throwing in the towel in the long struggle against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies in Afghanistan.

Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

I work out with a trainer five days a week.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.

If you look at Hollywood today, compared to five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago or 30 years ago, the change from moment to moment has always been extraordinary. It never stops moving.

Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.

I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.

Stretching, which I do for five to 10 minutes before and after a match, is so important in general when it comes to prolonging your career and staying injury-free.

I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

Artists in not only country but other genres usually make four or five albums, then they change producers to keep their sound moving forward.

I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.

You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.