Six Quotes · Page 40

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

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

— Joe Frazier

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

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

— Robert Englund

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

— Freeman Patterson

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

— Ben Elton

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation…

— Rose George

I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could…

— J. K. Rowling

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need…

— Juan Marichal

My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and…

— Sean Astin

I gathered all the different Peel Sessions recordings together - I did six or seven of them over the years - and…

— Will Oldham

I didn't want people to wait six months to get the clothes, I wanted a very immediate, real feel to it. You…

— Esteban Cortazar

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken…

— Kage Baker

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves…

— Benjamin Cardozo

As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

You know, if a relationship has gone on for five or six years, that couple is not having as much sex as…

— Chester Brown

In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic…

— Edward Hirsch

On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin,…

— Dwayne Johnson

In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator…

— Adrian Goldsworthy

I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found…

— George Sand

Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict…

— Ellen Hopkins

I know I have this image but in reality, if you take all my records, I had to use five or six…

— Young Thug

I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini…

— Chrissy Teigen

When I started go-karting at the age of six, I always dreamt of becoming a Formula One driver.

— Heikki Kovalainen

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

— Nancy Pelosi

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

— E. B. White

Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

— Frank J. Prial

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

— Jordan Knight

In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.

— Ernie Wise

I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.

— Philippe Petit

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

— Eva Herzigova

Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow.

— Morihei Ueshiba

I was one of the first ones to be on the cover of 'Society' magazine in 1995 flaunting my six packs.

— Rahul Dev

I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.

— Jack Redmond

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.

— E. Lockhart

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

— Edward Coke