Five Quotes · Page 43

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

— George Jean Nathan

Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.

— Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

— Gene Tierney

Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

— Will Rogers

Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.

— John Oliver

When you have five little kids, you're not going to open Mindy Kaling's latest book. You're playing with your kids.

— Jim Gaffigan

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

— Beck

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

— David Cassidy

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five…

— Steven Adler

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that…

— Martin Scorsese

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.

— Michael Moore

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed…

— Eugene Jarecki

We shot ['Sailcloth'] five days down in Cornwall, and you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place. It was a couple…

— John Hurt

I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring…

— John C. Maxwell

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in…

— Andy Roddick

I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine…

— Yvonne Strahovski

In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get…

— Mike Scioscia

In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned…

— Fritz Sauckel

My kids are one, three, five and eight, and we are all horsey. The kids have got their ponies and can ride.…

— Michael Owen

I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and…

— John Lennon

Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest…

— Chris O'Dowd

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces…

— George Carlin

I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say…

— Edie Falco

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict.…

— Justin Vernon

If I find what I like, maybe in about five years we'll be able to afford to build a home in the…

— Kent McCord

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

— Adolf Galland

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.

— James Altucher

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

— William Holden

If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.

— Henry Ford

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.

— Charles Barkley

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

— Jon Bon Jovi

I've ridden shopping bikes. My dad held my saddle and pushed me along when I was five. I've had a go on…

— Zoe Ball

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

— Graydon Carter

I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any…

— Woody Allen

I want five children! I do want a huge family, but ultimately, whatever will be, will be.

— Kelvin Fletcher

I auditioned for four or five years and didn't get anything after that.

— Alden Ehrenreich

We are on a planet of seven billion people, five billion mobile subscriptions.

— Paul Conneally

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

— Jenny Zhang

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

— Amy Dickinson