Ten Quotes · Page 22

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

— C. S. Lewis

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the…

— Thomas Sowell

How do you pray? Take the gospel of each day and spend ten minutes with it. Read it, and read it again.…

— Henri Nouwen

Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

— Aaron Hoopes

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

— Yasser Arafat

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask…

— Lorna Landvik

There's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now, two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.

— Tom Lehrer

Of course, one of the most disturbing features is the fact that while we have had roughly a ten year pause in…

— Paul Virilio

Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

If a guy's ever telling you a four-hour sex story with a straight face, just feel sorry for him. Not for lying…

— Ray Romano

I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my…

— Johnny Vegas

When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that's not…

— Peter Scott

It's a good thing wrinkles don't start 'til you're 50ish. So, wrinkles, then Happy 60th, and then Just think, you'll be 70…

— John Walter Bratton

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective…

— Simone Weil

Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men…

— Frederick William Faber

My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine…

— Sean Mackin

[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those…

— Bjork

Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others…

— Lukas Foss

Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people,…

— Dallas Willard

To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a…

— John Florio

So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's…

— Newt Gingrich

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

— Gore Vidal

One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.

— Oscar de la Renta

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

— David Sedaris

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance…

— Susan B. Anthony

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one…

— Julianna Baggott

I think health-wise, pro-wrestling is probably ten times worse for you than MMA.

— CM Punk

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

— Will Rogers

Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain…

— Fred Armisen

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

— Ronald Ross

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what…

— Leo Buscaglia

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

— Anatole France

I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track…

— Michael Hastings

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to…

— Charles Kettering

My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

— Charlene Weir