Six Quotes · Page 15

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.

— Steven Tyler

One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from.

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

— Seth Godin

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the…

— Ray Bradbury

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

— Joe Frazier

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new

— Freeman Patterson

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

— Robert Englund

If you've had something for more than six months, and it's still not repaired, it's clutter.

— Gretchen Rubin

There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them…

— Felicity Jones

I co-pastor now, so I preach six months, then another guy preaches six months. So that's really why I'm preparing for January,…

— Max Lucado

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

All of a sudden everybody's saying, "take the oil." It wasn't so fashionable to take the oil six months ago. I've been…

— Donald Trump

I like that girl more that I can remember likin’ anything in my life. I’m not about to give her up. I’ll…

— Simone Elkeles

Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment…

— Oscar Wilde

I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out…

— Rainbow Rowell

Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make…

— Lev Grossman

Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored…

— Lerone Bennett, Jr

Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come…

— Ai Weiwei

People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with…

— Julian Simon

And guys will say looks matter, but they'll also say things like "Well, she should be smart and kind." And you know…

— Sheena Iyengar

There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change…

— David McCullough

I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a…

— Arthur Bradford

In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I…

— Mathieu Kassovitz

My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility…

— George Galloway

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

— Lindsay Pearce

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

— Eric Whitacre

Every day is new. It's just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.

— Wiz Khalifa

Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

— Chuck Knox

We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won.

— Louise Wilson

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

— Larry McMurtry

Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

— Christina Aguilera

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.

— Robert Johnson

America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.

— Sergio Leone

Came out my mama's pussy, I'm on welfare. Twenty-six years old, still on welfare.

— Ol' Dirty Bastard

There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.

— Gloria Steinem

I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

— Marton Csokas

Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.

— Anthony Browne

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

— L'Wren Scott

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

— Terry Pratchett

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest

— Richard Krajicek