Ten Quotes · Page 10

Tunisia is small - just ten million, no great natural resources.

— Elliott Abrams

I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.

— Olivia Wilde

One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.

— Joan Benoit

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

— Robert Townsend

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

— Robert Plant

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

— John Henry Newman

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

— Sandra Bernhard

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

— Edith Wharton

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

— John Flavel

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank…

— Earl Weaver

When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.

— Noam Chomsky

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew…

— Nicole Anderson

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

— Lawrence Kasdan

You will be the same person ten years from now except for the books you read, the places you go, the people…

— Jay Strack

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled…

— Norman Mailer

There's always going to be somebody that you consider maybe more beautiful. But nine times out of ten here in L.A., that…

— Amanda Schull

For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful…

— Franz Wright

I'm not saying that all American men are this way, but nine out of ten are breast-fixated, wham-bam-thank-you-rna'am cretins who just don't…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy…

— Raymond Chandler

If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take…

— Douglas Adams

I was an executive at Columbia Pictures for ten years. I was doing great. My career was on the upswing. But, right…

— DeVon Franklin

I traveled the world ten times over doing something I never thought I'd do in a million years. I found myself in…

— Drew Waters

“What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity,…

— Cheryl Mendelson

Being exaltingly thin was, of course, the foundation for the visibility, the man, the adornments of this life-to-be; it was the prerequisite…

— Geneen Roth

The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of…

— Wilfred Trotter

No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great…

— Ford Madox Ford

During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first…

— Patricia Briggs

Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I…

— Tullian Tchividjian

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

— Richard Perle

Top Ten lists make me insane. I just know they're going to change daily.

— Bill Hader

I need ten thousand angels to walk me out the door.

— Mindy McCready

For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.

— Fanny Brice

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

— Fritz Lang

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

— George Bernard Shaw

You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?

— Johnny Knoxville

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

— Bjarne Stroustrup