Five Quotes

This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.

Most of the time after the US Open, it is kind of like you are trying to finish strong. But to do it five years and maybe six is something that has never been done before, so it is a huge challenge.

When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing because it is one of the toughest things to do in sports.

I train for about an hour five days a week and feel I'm in the best shape I've ever been. I can eat what I want and that includes scoffing half a big bar of Cadbury's a day.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits over that period.

They really can’t afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can’t afford to do research for five customers who won’t generate a lot of commissions.

I think we're all fans of Twilight. Being in this Saga, you become a fan. I have the whole DVD collection at home. I put it on every day and watch it at least five times a day. Is that weird?

Unless you're one of the five billionaires out there who don't have to worry about anything, every aspect of everything is stressful, no matter what your job is.

Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.

After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.

Three, four, five years, we’re out of here. You know what I’m saying? It’s a TV show. This thing ain’t gonna last forever. No way.

In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

Now, with the Internet, you're either five years ahead or you're five years behind, and the music game is catchin' up right now.

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.

"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.

Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

I'm the third of five children.

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

I just came out of the gym from three hours this morning. I got five hours of sleep. That's it. Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.

It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

I drink at least five bottles of water a day and always get eight hours of sleep.