Five Quotes · Page 42

I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.

— Anonymous

Out of the five years I spent in software, I was in the U.S. for two.

— Karthik Subbaraj

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

— Benjamin Jowett

If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.

— Carnie Wilson

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

— Rosemary Wells

Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.

— Anthony Browne

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

— Jimmy Connors

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

— Patricia Highsmith

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a…

— Mark Haddon

People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like…

— Grace Paley

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve…

— Yoshio Taniguchi

We're in the business of delivering cars in five minutes, but once you can deliver cars in five minutes, there's a lot…

— Travis Kalanick

If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for…

— Madame de Stael

If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ...…

— David Cottrell

The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life.

— Paul Pearsall

I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to…

— Jo Nesbo

One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that…

— Rob Sheffield

Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you…

— Gary Snyder

I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart…

— Tariq Ramadan

In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends…

— Sam Zell

I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and…

— Andy Warhol

I was on Facebook. I was on MySpace. And somebody said to me, You should check out this thing called Twitter. I…

— Ashton Kutcher

GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash…

— Steven Adler

I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.

— Julian Assange

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

— Nicholas Lea

Fifteen dollar too beaucoup. Five dollars each... Five dollars is all my mom allows me to spend.

— Matthew Modine

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

— Gianfranco Zola

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

— Madonna Ciccone

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

— Janis Joplin

For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the middle of the target.

— Ruth Westheimer

You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.

— Burt Munro

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

— August Wilson

My wife and I go to five or six hockey games in the offseason. It's our favorite thing to do.

— Ryan Zimmerman

I wrote 'On Second Thought' in five minutes in the back of my bus going through Montana.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I wanted to be a nobleman; I bought a name and a title... Oh, nothing is impossible with five million a year.

— Eugene Sue

I kept doing tryouts, and finally, after five years I got signed by WWE.

— Mickie James

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When I'm around someone for about five minutes, I can usually mimic their voice.

— Chad Michael Murray

There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

— Jack Straw