Seven Quotes · Page 42

The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more…

— Jennifer James

There is a Precious Mountain Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare A cold moon rises through the pines Layer upon layer of…

— Hanshan

[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama,…

— Paul Krugman

I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you…

— Glenn Gould

There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them…

— Esa Saarinen

I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

— Stephen Strasburg

I started doing well at Villa when I was six or seven.

— Jack Grealish

Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.” Dany…

— Anonymous

Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the…

— John Stark

There are seven natural openings in the head and body. A lawyer is the only human being with eight. The extra one…

— W. C. Fields

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

— Sasha Frere-Jones

I have dreams of being a producer, being behind a camera, eating seven tacos for every meal, and making movies that affect…

— Emma Stone

There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and…

— John F. Kennedy

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

— Anthony Trollope

I win over Anthony Johnson six out of seven days. But, the only thing that wasn't supposed to happen, happened.

— Alexander Gustafsson

I've been thinking," Brooklyn said as I gawked at the god sitting next to me, "if you get all lovey-dovey and decide…

— Darynda Jones

On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked…

— Jay-Z

I’ll never forget the first time I ran with a group of Kenyan women in 2004... The first mile was way slower…

— Lauren Fleshman

I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had…

— Joan Didion

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything…

— Jo Brand

Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.

— Peter Drury

Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the…

— Zora Neale Hurston

We'd become lazy with 'Top Gear,' doing six or seven shows a series.

— James May