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“The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.”

Years Bigs Boys Careers Lucky Ten Brilliant Fats Flukes

Author:Sandra Oh

“When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite”s style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.”

Years Looks Stuff Boys Style Ten Essence Eight Nine Spokes Dynamite Duh

Author:Jason Reitman

“Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold, These I will take out, and call my boy To barter them for sweet wine. And with you twain, let me forget The sorrow of ten thousand ages!”

Age Today Forget Boys Five Pieces Sweet Flower Sorrow Thousand Ten Gold Let Me Horse Wine Coats Fur My Boys Fur Coats Sweet Wine

Author:Li Bai

“a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.”

Ifs Years Enough Whole Would Be Sides Known Boys Ten Track Stealing Finance Jail Coal Arrested Railroads Lad Indianapolis Railroad Tracks

Author:Mother Jones

“... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.”

Years Turns Boys Ten Difficulty Twenties Nine Nine Years Nineteen Immaturity

Author:John Boyne

“In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.”

World Trying Mind Self Facts Light Wish Party Boys Bears Ten Window Opposites Praise Silent Complexes Selfish Nervous Witness Scream Cosmic Afterlife Yearning Privileged Eleven Intervals Tics

Author:John Updike

“Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped.”

Thinking Littles Past Lying Black Christ Boys Sky Love You Ten Guilt Rings Christmas Black Boy

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'”

Thinking Want Years Bigs Actors Cities Boys Fantasy New York Scene Ten Gun New York City Cop Robbers Cops And Robbers

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!”

Ifs Men Boys Minutes Ought Ten Shots

Book:Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium

Source: Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium

“As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.”

“We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.”

Source: The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy any more. It's no fun putting on ten years and fifty pounds all of a sudden. Other times, I get up and I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm not a weary innkeeper, hopeless, with bones that feel like they're made of lead. I really sink into the characters that I write.”

Feels Writing Years Made Sometimes Character Body Young Fun Boys Ten Bones Hungry Get Up Fifty Pounds Hopeless Weary

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

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

Thinking I Can Reason Boys Ten Letting Go Dimes Never Let Go

Author:Mr. Krabs

“All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...”

Men Years Order Dies Names Hours Justice Boys Watches Thousand Ten Murder Scales Commit Gentleman Hypocrisy Seconds Capture Offense Destined Bayonets

Author:Peter Ustinov