Ten Quotes
Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.
The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.
In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.
Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts
The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.
When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.
Mondays I sleep. I go in at ten, do my lift, watch the game from the day before. Tuesday is off, but I go in, lift, watch film. Then I have French toast with my sister.
I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn
All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.
Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.
I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.
I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.
He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.
I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.
Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.
And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.
If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.
When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.
If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.
Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.
I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.
It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.
When I think back to 2005, the fast growth markets - what we call the fast growth markets - were probably ten percent of our business. They are now 31 percent.
I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.
After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.
Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running.
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.
Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?
Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.
