Ten Quotes · Page 5

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

— Jesse Owens

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

— John Heywood

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

— H. L. Mencken

Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

— Julie Burchill

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Steven Wright

I didn't want to say anything. I liked Star Wars when I was ten.

— Gerard Way

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

— Konrad Lorenz

I'm not saying find someone and ask them if you can mow their grass for ten dollars. I'm saying find weeds that…

— Andy Andrews

The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone.

— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

— Vera Wang

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

— Malcolm Bradbury

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

— John Foxe

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew…

— Leo Szilard

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

— David Benioff

In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest.…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to…

— Michael Connelly

Mondays I sleep. I go in at ten, do my lift, watch the game from the day before. Tuesday is off, but…

— Ndamukong Suh

I always consult five to ten people who are hardcore fans, to see how far I can push a role. When they…

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Pastoring the flock with words. I love that. We always have a prayer time in the middle of our service. We take…

— Max Lucado

A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of…

— Florence Nightingale

How is it possible that in just the last ten years all of these things which were taboo throughout our culture, throughout…

— Rush Limbaugh

A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors.…

— Peter Lynch

How do you think policing is in places like China, or North Korea? Whatever we experience, in terms of our policing, I…

— Immortal Technique

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

But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten…

— Saburo Sakai

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

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

— Willa Ford

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

— Henry Winkler

Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.

— David Wilkerson

I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.

— Azim Premji

The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars.

— Rainn Wilson

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

— Christiane Amanpour

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

— Kinky Friedman

I keep a lot to myself. Thinking a million things while speaking ten things.

— Mark Patterson