Five Quotes

I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

I never give up. If you beat me, you have to beat me one, three, four, five times, and I still don't give up.

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

By the time I was five, I was a little diva.

Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.

I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.

Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.

My name is Oprah Winfrey. I have a talk show. I'm single. I have eight dogs-five golden retrievers, two black labs, and a mongrel. I have four years of college.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.

The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

It was a crazy game. We could have scored five...oh right, we did score five, but we could have scored six, seven or eight.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

All this happened, more or less.

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.

You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five!

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.