Seven Quotes · Page 28

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

— Bo Jackson

I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars.

— David Walton

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else…

— Billy Corgan

If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of…

— S. Truett Cathy

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

— Karen Allen

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

— Henry David Thoreau

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

— Terri Windling

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they…

— Tess Gerritsen

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor…

— Ambrose Bierce

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a…

— Truman Capote

Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean,…

— Daryl Hall

My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, “You know, I brought you…

— Bill Cosby

I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with…

— Brad Carson

“In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune…

— Diana Wynne Jones

When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment…

— Daymond John

“Try to think of it as though we are rewriting history––the first time this experience occurred you and I never kissed in…

— Ross Caligiuri

I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with…

— Sophie Calle

Seven years I worked at the Polish deli. It's a very slow deli. So I sat around a lot on my stool…

— Jenny McCarthy

I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured…

— Hal Porter

[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven…

— Freeman Dyson

Private sector unionization is down to practically seven percent. Meanwhile the public sector unions have kind of sustained themselves [even] under attack,…

— Noam Chomsky

Jason Rezaian is finally headed home. He's the correspondent for The Washington Post who was held in Iran for a year and…

— Renee Montagne

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - it turned little people into crass stereotypes.

— Jedediah Bila

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.

— Wilford Brimley

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from…

— George Michael

Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.

— Wil Wheaton

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to…

— Irwin Redlener

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

— Raegan Butcher

My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven…

— Natalie Morales

“None of us has moved very far from the seven-year-old who vigilantly watches to see who got more.”

— Dan Harris

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

— Robert Carlyle

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

— David Mitchell

“pulling seven people away from their work for an hour is worth seven hours of lost productivity.”

— Jason Fried

A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

— Zac Goldsmith

I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock…

— Emanuel Celler

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is…

— Billy Boyd

“But the world doesn't run on logic, it runs on the seven deadly sins and the weather. - Alan Furst; Red Gold”

— Alan Furst