Fifth Quotes
352 Fifth quotes by 317 unique authors
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I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
— John Scalzi
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The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.
— Jack Kerouac
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We have Not one In common No two Are shaped alike The third Because of that eye we lack In the fourth Direction there is…
— Tite Kubo
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I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer,…
— Ned Vizzini
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No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page…
— George R. R. Martin
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Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of…
— Louis L'Amour
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If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone…
— Ally Carter
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.
— Willard Scott
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Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination;…
— Unknown Author
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Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from…
— Suzanne Farrell
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...and I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth.
— Tom Waits
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up…
— Barry Schwartz
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I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really loved acting.
— Cindy Busby
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When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.
— Claire Coffee
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My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.
— George Smoot
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends…
— Leonard Susskind
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I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child…
— Djimon Hounsou
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I used to live in the Bronx, then I lived uptown on 106th St. and Broadway, and finally I moved to Harlem right before it…
— Regina Hall
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I want to do things I enjoy, and show business comes fifth or sixth down the line.
— Jasper Carrott
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I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers…
— William Boyd
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A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel…
— Mario Testino
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It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
— Lauren DeStefano
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Elizabeth Taylor had come to Washington with a few suitcases and found out that she was going to go to Iran and meet the shah…
— Unknown Author
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Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial…
— Vijay Kumar
Who Wrote These Fifth Quotes
317 authors contributed a total of 352 Fifth Quotes, led by these top contributors: