Ten Quotes · Page 37

I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.

— Steven Wright

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and…

— William Petersen

When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his…

— Claude Debussy

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you…

— Dick Gregory

My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but…

— Jim Goad

I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.

— Nigel Melville

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . .…

— Laurence Steinberg

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who…

— Sara Sheridan

What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless…

— Ronald Reagan

London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too.…

— Doris Lessing

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers…

— Anastas Mikoyan

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed…

— Todd Tiahrt

They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course,…

— Robert Thurman

It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I…

— Paul Auster

I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on…

— Lance Armstrong

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

— George Burns

I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the…

— Dean Wareham

Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

— George Mikes

People go to the big urban centres because they have a quality of life, a quality of intellectual inquiry in the big…

— Irvine Welsh

It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or…

— Jorge Luis Borges

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

— H. L. Mencken

I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a…

— George Carlin

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

— Grace Paley

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a…

— Anonymous