Six Quotes · Page 20

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a…

— Nina Simone

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

— Jane Austen

It isn't that easy to drop character, especially when you shoot for 12 to 16 hours a day for six months.

— Katherine Langford

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten…

— Victor Hugo

The only thing I can promise is my best and when I bring my best, you're going to have to bring six…

— Henry Cejudo

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

— Geraldo Rivera

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.

— Robert Dallek

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool,

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old…

— Robert Glasper

When I was six, someone in my family gave me a yellow pencil holder that had my name printed on it. I…

— Seth Numrich

Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government…

— Jose Rizal

These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger;…

— Sun Tzu

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a…

— Matthew Fox

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow…

— Jim Rohn

I have met a couple of six-year-olds who were apparently quite excited to meet me - before they actually met me. And…

— Tom Felton

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage…

— Anne Stevenson

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American…

— Ronald Reagan

When I turned twenty-five, I did a six-week trip around Europe by myself. I'd never really done a European trip before and…

— Tyler Hoechlin

For me, Corsica is a place that I visited with my friends, maybe five or six times over the years, and I'm…

— Nate Lowman

I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a…

— Paul Haslinger

Wenger has been Arsenal's coach for 15 years but he hasn't won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn't won…

— Jose Mourinho

Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each night. Restful sleep means that you're not using pharmaceuticals…

— Deepak Chopra

Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school…

— Luke Harding

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because…

— Chord Overstreet

I can kill a dog in six ways. Five of them are throwing missiles at it.

— Eugene Mirman

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

— Ken Burns

It's a lot for one director to do six hours, particularly in the Marvel way.

— Kate Herron

Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.

— Larry Merchant

Nefertiti, the most beautiful calico in the world, chose me as her own six short years ago.

— Anonymous

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

— James May

You ever read an article, and at the bottom, it says, 'Continued on page six'? I'm , 'Not for me. I'm done.'

— Jim Gaffigan

Fitness begins with initiative and continues with consistency. The six pack abs is a byproduct of being healthy.

— Hrithik Roshan

It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.

— Steve Jobs

It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.

— Vince McMahon

There's nobody I don't like. Maybe in six years it will be different.

— Courtney Thorne Smith

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

— Diane Cilento

Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.

— Aldo Leopold

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

— Bryan Adams

I really want to do a 'True Blood-Six Feet Under' comic book crossover.

— Michael McMillian

In Los Angeles, the Police Department buys a 40-foot refrigerated trailer truck every six months just to hold DNA evidence.

— Bill Dedman