Ten Quotes

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New York. But this is China, where nothing is surprising.

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.

The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

I'm pretty much right on schedule. Start off slow, finish up strong. I don't know why everyone panics. I've been doing this for ten years now. Why change?

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.

Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped.

Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.

It's all about what you feel on the inside - and I'm feeling like a chocolate chip cookie because I had about ten of them last night!

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

I'm not saying find someone and ask them if you can mow their grass for ten dollars. I'm saying find weeds that need pulling and pull them.

Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.

And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.

They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time.

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.

This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.

Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.

Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.

To feed ten mouths, she had to call on Mr. Welfare.

I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments.

Every morning as I read the scripture, every night, I quote the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule.

I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.