Five Quotes
4497 quotes by 3246 authors
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I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
— Joseph Priestley
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Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.
— Martin Amis
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Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot…
— Unknown Author
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I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one…
— Michael Arndt
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I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.
— Richard Hammond
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In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are…
— Nicholas Ray
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To remove product buildup from your hair, mix a tablespoon of vinegar in your hand with your favorite shampoo and rub through your hair. Concentrate…
— Unknown Author
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Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and…
— Peter Matthiessen
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I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too…
— Esther Williams
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We don't have to believe the story of our lives we've been told. You're not the same person you were when you first had sex…
— Laura Berman
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Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a…
— Ernie Harwell
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To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in…
— Judith Crist
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I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook…
— Cool Papa Bell
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The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.
— Marie-Antoine Careme
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Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball…
— Ron Luciano
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The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25? I do. Gravity…
— Jen Lancaster
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Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win…
— Richard Viguerie
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You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two…
— Unknown Author
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At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I…
— Denise Scott Brown
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Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)
— Jeff Jarvis
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