Five Quotes · Page 118

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all…

— Leonardo da Vinci

There are always things I have to remove. I might look at a shot for five months, when somebody new to the…

— Todd Haynes

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't…

— J. Milton Hayes

I think we should be talk about what we want to do for the country. But if we're going to get into…

— Hillary Clinton

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could…

— Fran Lebowitz

Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns…

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were…

— Andy Richter

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another…

— Carly Fiorina

Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design…

— Eric S. Raymond

Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex…

— Jacob M. Appel

Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given…

— Burton Malkiel

It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following…

— Jan Gustafsson

I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I…

— Gaby Hoffmann

They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but…

— Lea DeLaria

You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is…

— David Letterman

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's…

— Ray Lewis

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other…

— Ronald Reagan

We're gonna get weaker. That's already happened. They used to say, you know, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Now…

— Karl Pilkington

I'm making fun of midwestern homophobia [in the joke], but I'm still saying faggot. And almost every month as I'm doing that…

— Neal Brennan

You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass…

— Keith Morris

Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.

— Jeb Bush

My family actually moved a lot growing up. I really only lived in one place every five or six years, and then…

— David Lambert

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

— Marie-Antoine Careme

If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are…

— Elizabeth Warren

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already…

— Kathleen Norris

We expect a horse race, ... The reality is that competition drives all innovation. Intel did nothing with its 386 chip for…

— Lou Dobbs

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It…

— Agnes Repplier

You know, 'Project Runway' was a really special show, and we had a great five seasons with it. We loved that show,…

— Andy Cohen

Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as…

— Al Gore

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously,…

— Marie Dressler

The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five…

— Gene Hackman

I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or…

— Dana Perino

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up…

— Joely Richardson

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning,…

— Temple Grandin

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines.…

— Katie Leclerc

If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the…

— Ralph Marston

I can't always be making 'British films.' Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive…

— Noel Clarke

It is based off the pentatonic scale, which is a five-note scale in music. And there are five of us. We were…

— Kirstin Maldonado

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

— Joe Perry