Five Quotes · Page 84

Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more…

— Mick Ralphs

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I…

— Elvis Costello

I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in…

— Sean Bean

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict -…

— Richard K. Morgan

Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five…

— Mohnish Pabrai

In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three…

— Pastor Maldonado

We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount…

— Anonymous

Five days in Nairobi slums changes you.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to.

— Selena Gomez

I doubt if you get another Wu-Tang Clan. That might be harder than getting the new Jackson Five

— Raekwon

We'd love to be playing to five or six thousand.

— Steph Houghton

And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these…

— Malcolm X

I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are…

— William Kristol

The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets…

— Vito Fossella

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

During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with…

— James Q. Wilson

Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I got bored and then joined the British SAS. It was five very exciting years of my life, and then I'd always…

— Lewis Pugh

We try to eat at home four or five days a week.

— Al Roker

My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out…

— Gordon Lightfoot

But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have…

— Junot Diaz

The money has to be deferred with what they call "clawback," which means they can get it back if I lose it…

— Richard Thaler

To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

— Steve Jobs

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

— Larry Niven

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas…

— David Cassidy

I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my…

— Yves Klein

I'm strapped in [the barrel] with a five-point drag-racing harness. With 50 feet to go, they tell me on the walkie-talkie to…

— Steve Trotter

Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three…

— Steve Martin

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

— Liberty Ross

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

— Griffin Dunne

I've gotten to the point where the label of "best friend" is so ridiculous. If you have three people in your life…

— Selena Gomez

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

— Henry Cavill

Things that made me happy five, six years ago don't make me happy anymore.

— Kenny Chesney

First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more-no less. Three shall be the number…

— Michael Palin

A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

— Helen Hunt

Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they…

— Tom Waits

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

— Peter Ustinov