Five Quotes · Page 41

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

— Gene Hackman

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am…

— Alfred the Great

I have five siblings, so my mom was always pregnant, and she would wear these dungarees that looked so cool.

— Liberty Ross

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

— Clement Mok

I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.

— John Foster

Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)

— Jeff Jarvis

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

— John Gimlette

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.

— Peter Jackson

There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in…

— George Foreman

The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the…

— Lee Trevino

When we launched our [ Vogue] site around five years ago, I had already started this process on paper. We are now…

— Franca Sozzani

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill…

— Vin Diesel

I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges,…

— Francois Englert

Anything I say about women, I try to make sure that at least five or six friends of mine are going through…

— Chris Rock

I'm a comic because I don't want to do the nine-to-five, I have to modify that and say I'm a comic because…

— Jay Mohr

It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer…

— Niall Ferguson

For me, Corsica is a place that I visited with my friends, maybe five or six times over the years, and I'm…

— Nate Lowman

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically…

— Sharon Creech

When I turned twenty-five, I did a six-week trip around Europe by myself. I'd never really done a European trip before and…

— Tyler Hoechlin

I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had…

— James Fenton

I update my MySpace every day, I update my Facebook fan page, but that's about the extent of it. I don't want…

— Patton Oswalt

Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the…

— Czeslaw Milosz

When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it…

— Junot Diaz

I had a great deal of independence from the president and the White House during the entirety of my five years. And…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

— Paul Harvey

The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.

— Terry Pratchett

I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.

— Tania Raymonde

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

— Beth Hart

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

— Nina Jacobson

I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.

— George Stephen

I can get ready in five minutes, but getting out of bed takes forever.

— Kaia Gerber

I'd rather fight somebody in the top five rather than somebody in the top 15, but I'll fight anybody.

— Gegard Mousasi

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

— Louis Diat

I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan and I'm still not.

— Trisha Yearwood

Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes.

— Bob Thaves

You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

— Beano Cook

Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

— Spike Milligan

If there's five dudes on a song, probably three of them are only really good.

— Jadakiss

I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

But I don't write a full capsule review of anything I haven't heard five times. It's usually closer to ten.

— Robert Christgau