Five Quotes

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Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what… — Janet Fitch
My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the… — Madonna Ciccone
According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those… — Barry Sanders
The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses. — David Riesman
I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then… — Nicholson Baker
A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he… — Roger Rosenblatt
One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to… — Patty Duke
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name. — Marie de France
One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all… — Emiliano Zapata
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite… — Nicholson Baker
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. — William Lilly
I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so… — Lester Bangs
The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions… — Warren Farrell
Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five. — Shaquille O'Neal
My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or… — Dwight Gooden
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. — Alice James
I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many… — Olga Korbut
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them. — Larry Niven
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names. — Larry Niven

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