Ten Quotes · Page 8

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

— Isadora Duncan

Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'

— Jack McMahon

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

— Pete Townshend

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

— William Bernbach

To feed ten mouths, she had to call on Mr. Welfare.

— Big Daddy Kane

On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.

— Justin Townes Earle

I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day...

— Thelonious Monk

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

— Kevin Richardson

And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten…

— John Crowe Ransom

If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The…

— Sengcan

...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

— Jacques Delors

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

— Malcolm Gladwell

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand…

— William Shakespeare

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I…

— Britt Ekland

I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments.

— Bill Bright

I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be,…

— Abraham Coles

In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was…

— Joanna Southcott

The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each…

— Frederick Lenz

I took a film course in grade ten that made me want to direct, and I've always been making short films and…

— Devon Bostick

In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of…

— Benjamin Graham

Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information. Ten thousand reflections hide the true gem.…

— John F. Kennedy

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A…

— Christopher Hitchens

Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at…

— Bernard Lietaer

Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three…

— Stephen Graham Jones

Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and…

— Francis Crick

I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in…

— Jim Carrey

The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten…

— Brad Alan Lewis

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen…

— Charles de Lint

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

I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.

— Kevin Gates

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

— John Heywood

Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.

— Leonard Ravenhill

I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy.

— Mr. Krabs

I've had this reoccurring dream for the last ten to fifteen years.

— Tommy Tune

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

— Jesse Owens

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