Ten Quotes · Page 3

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

— H. L. Mencken

All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.

— Graham Norton

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

— William Wordsworth

“Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.”

— Anonymous

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

— Donna Tartt

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

— John Lennon

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

— Marshall McLuhan

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

— Conway Twitty

'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

— Jennifer Damiano

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

— Brian K. Vaughan

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

— John Milton

I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons.

— Jim Cymbala

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start…

— Allen Johnson

Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about…

— Paulo Coelho

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't…

— Eddie Cantor

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this…

— Stella Benson

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten…

— Josiah Strong

Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million…

— Jillian Michaels

There's still room for flair and artistry and playing a game that's going to confuse people. Federer has proven that, time and…

— Darren Cahill

When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a…

— Sarah Paulson

In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the…

— William Davis

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.…

— Laozi

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come…

— Jesse Owens

Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy…

— Patrick Rothfuss

about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut,…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had…

— Pico Iyer

When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of…

— Joseph O'Neill

Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has…

— Anonymous

Before Community started up again for the season, we had the chance to go on a long family vacation where we drove…

— Joel McHale

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

— Cheryl Mendelson

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

— A. E. Housman

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard.

— Cote de Pablo

Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.

— Jackson Browne

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

— Henny Youngman

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

— Clement Greenberg

Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.

— Jack LaLanne

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

— Edward Steichen