Five Quotes · Page 230

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

— Hokusai

There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered."…

— Lou Doillon

I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended…

— Sadao Araki

You are the average of your five closest associates.

— John Spence

There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five.

— Joss Whedon

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a…

— Evan S. Connell

Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification:…

— Milan Kundera

Having a baby, it's like a five year commitment.

— Chelsea Handler

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

— Harold Wilson

Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with…

— Howard Coble

'The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage.

— Richard LaGravenese

When you strike a blow, do not let your mind dally on it, not concerning yourself with whether or not it is…

— Yagyu Munenori

Not only I would like to work as the youngest technology evangelist at Microsoft, I would like to work on those cutting-edge…

— Arfa Karim

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto…

— Mahathir Mohamad

No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell,…

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up…

— Brett Favre

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

To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two…

— Melissa Rosenberg

The financial crisis was a classic case of the political class failing the American people. Twenty-five agencies were supposed to be minding…

— Carly Fiorina

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to…

— Stewart Brand

Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.

— Katie Couric

So we [with Chris Ellis] did [Fresh Hell], and we did the first five episodes as a lark, just to see if…

— Brent Spiner

We are in the greatest evolutionary transformation in the history of our species. We are expanding beyond the five senses. We are…

— Gary Zukav

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

— Clement Mok