Five Quotes · Page 9

A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five…

— Yamini Krishnamurthy

I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in…

— Greta Salpeter

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

— George Bernard Shaw

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their…

— Anna Quindlen

I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own…

— Anne Lamott

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the…

— Francis Bacon

In my mind I still qualify as punk, though I know four out of five punks would disagree.

— John K. Samson

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasnt until I was an adult that I realized what I…

— Willie Aames

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five…

— Ellie Goulding

I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading…

— Jason Sudeikis

When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were…

— Christian Boltanski

You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven…

— Julian Fellowes

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

— Nicholas Lea

I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five…

— Liberace

Jose DeLeon on his career has seventy-three wins and one-hundred and five RBIs.

— Ralph Kiner

And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in…

— Shelby Harris

I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the…

— Wyclef Jean

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the…

— Ricky Williams

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough…

— Chris Abani

For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered…

— Harbhajan Singh

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an…

— Sylvia Earle

I always say that if I end up in a relationship where I feel like seventy-five percent of what I was looking…

— Sara Quin

Denmark is a small nation of five million people, but our economy is completely dependent on our commercial fleet. Every family has…

— Tobias Lindholm

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

— Binyavanga Wainaina