Best Fifth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are no electromagnetic field (EMF) book millionaires yet, but that may change with the roll out of the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks.”

Book Change Fifth Electromagnetic Generation Wireless 5g Out Field Networks Roll Emf Yet Millionaires

Author:Steven Magee

“I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.”

Feels Art Ideas House Walks Millions No Idea Apartment Great Art Fifth Avenues Warhol Fifth Avenue Malibu Basquiat

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.”

Said Ends Stories Jobs Left Bigger Ill Firm Get Better Publishers Fifth

Author:Ali Smith

“I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.”

Years Funny Father Comedy Dad My Dad Finished Jealousy Grades Jealous Graduation Hilarious Fifth Funny Graduation Jealousy Envy Fifth Grade Love Jealousy Love And Jealousy

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."”

“It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.”

Thinking Writing Years Firsts Long Stories Realizing Written Pages Long Time Thirds Fourth Depressing Fifth Fooled

Author:David Sedaris

“The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.”

Want Wells Children Would Be Running Kids School Lasts Middle Dad Finished Hey My Children Upset Weekend Packs Embarrassed Fifth Your Dad

Author:Dan Wheldon

“Yesterday I was playing Beethovens fifth, because I love that.”

Yesterday Fifth

Author:Joan Armatrading

“Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'”

World Should Firsts Country Today Winning Bits Animal Race Five Four Feet Lucky Equal Thirds Horse Shoes Ran Ducks Fifth Horseshoes

Author:Eddie Izzard

“My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.”

Mind Firsts Mean Heard Dad First Time Red My Dad Albums Grades Tape Fifth Fifth Grade Compilation

Author:Andrew Dost

“It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.”

Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life

“I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.”

I Can Age Can Do Fifth

Author:Kitty Carlisle

“My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.”

Night Lord Five Four Moon Astronomy Fixed Fifth Wondrous

Book:Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“But there'll be plenty of room on Earth then because right now, what is it?-Only one-fifth of the Earth's surface is land, right? Whereas then there will be no more sea, it'll all be land, seas will be gone. The seas are the World's great septic tanks, its great cesspools, where all the waste of the World drains off into the sea.”

World Earth Rooms Gone Sea Land Right Now Waste Surface Plenty Heavenly Fifth Tanks Drains

Author:David Berg

“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”

Pain Fear Waiting Dark Poverty Loneliness Particular Creatures Thirds Fourth Ridicule Fifth Physical Pain Ambush

Author:Horace Walpole

“If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.”

Ifs Want Writing Song Fall Girl Trouble Easier Red Dresses Bars Chairs Tonight Say Anything Fifth Martini Falling Off

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.”

Thinking New York Fifth Avenues Fifth Avenue

Book:North America

Source: North America

“The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.”

Liberty Graves Empires Fifth Splendid

Book:The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume

“My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.”

Moments Might Three Courses Hours Chance Results Succeed Elements Winter Storm Snow Fierce Fifth Avenues February Fifth Avenue Snow Storms

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it's completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.”

Different Home School Teacher Grades Fifth Schooling One On One Fifth Grade

Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.”

Way Years May Has Beens Book Past Reading Grades Fifth New Books Sixth Grade Eighth Grade

Author:Brian J. White

“What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.”

World Opportunity This World Hopefully Flags Platforms Olympics Fifth Great Opportunity

Author:Chris Witty

“According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much. Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime.”

Knows Humor Care Funny America Cities Too Much New York Beats Twenties Don't Care Fifth Places To Live Best Place Pittsburgh Caring Too Much

Author:David Letterman

“The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you.”

Black Teacher Degrees Harm Experts Enlightened Fifth Belts Beginners Black Belt

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.”

Writing Mind Humans May Has Beens Stories Seems Film Motivation Principles Novel Products Essentials Raises Series Contact Aliens Complexity Human Mind Fifth Ambiguity Delayed Disregarded

Author:James Gunn

“I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.”

Remember Dad Clothes My Dad Shops Grades Take Me Fifth Manhattan Fifth Grade

Author:Theophilus London

“By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We [The Replacements] stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out.”

Done Together Records Sick Hanging Out Fourth Fifth Touring Replacements Rehearsing

Author:Paul Westerberg

“There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.”

Source: Thoughts on art and life

“Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.”

People Mean Five Elements Blue Ridiculous Aliens Range Fifth Fifth Element

Author:Mika

“I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.”

Ifs Knows Firsts I Can Home Would Be Remember Used House Party Forever Violence Walking Husband Beats Abuse Drunk Coming Home Fifth Avenues Marble Physical Abuse Staircases Fifth Avenue

Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.”

People Ifs Thinking Matter Facts Seems Survival Stores Ships Islands Twelve Load Furniture Fifth Avenues Starvation Supplies Matter Of Fact Huts Robinson Crusoe Fifth Avenue

Author:Will Cuppy

“Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.”

Men Writing Littles Book Black White Products Couple Locals White Man Fifth Printed Georgia Once Upon A Time Georgians

Author:Joel Chandler Harris

“In my case, that number is 45. And given that I was born on December 13, 1945 my conception, gestation, and birth all occurred within that year that number has been with me, literally, for all my life, to date. The number 45 keeps on popping up as I go about the business of getting elected you guessed it as the forty-fifth president of the United States of America.”

Source: This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House

“Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah”

Care Fall Secret Lord Heard Kings Majors Lifts Fourth Minors Fifth Chords Composing Hallelujah Baffled

Author:Leonard Cohen

“Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.”

Ifs Fifth Bonus

Author:Gracie Allen

“I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth . The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov . It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.”

Ifs Thinking Happens Clear Threat Sticks Rejoice Fifth Muttering

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

“The Berbers, among whom even today one finds light skins and blue eyes, do not go back to the Vandal invasions of the fifth century A.D., but to the prehistoric Atlantic Nordic human wave. The Kabyle huntsmen, for example, are to no small degree still wholly Nordic (thus the blond Berbers in the region of Constantine form 10 % of the population; at Djebel Sheshor they are even more numerous).”

Humans Stills Light Eye Today Form Century Example Degrees Skins Blue Wave Population Regions Fifth Invasion Blue Eyes Prehistoric Constantine Nordic Vandals

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.”

Men Firsts Ability Rate Every Man Fifth

Author:J. G. Holland

“The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.”

“Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mean Able Understanding Growth Steps Climbs Fifth Ladders Good Way No Hope Guarding

Book:Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet - in the wrong universe.”

Heart May Mean Suffering Universe Term Born Teach Security Planets Practicals Doctrine Fifth Prey Abolish Idealist Sentient Beings

Author:Revilo P. Oliver

“While he was in Utah, Obama discussed immigration reform with leaders of the Mormon Church. Obama introduced the first lady. Then the church's president introduced HIS first lady. And his second lady. And his third, fourth, and fifth ladies.”

Firsts President Church Leader Thirds Immigration Reform Fourth Fifth First Lady Immigration Reform Utah

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by means of a rock, which is symbolic of God. This is analogous to the crushing of the head of the serpent in Genesis 3:15. This symbolism testifies to the final victory of God over all the hosts of Satan. Stoning is therefore integral to the commandment against murder.”

Mean Important Reason Rocks Victory Murder Finals Satan Crush Host Commandments Murderer Fifth Symbolic Genesis Symbolism Serpent

Author:Gary North

“It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.”

World Firsts Four Player Honor Series Titles Yankees Fifth New York Yankees World Series

Author:Mark Teixeira

“I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.”

People Believe Certain Audience Sea Figures Percent Rivers Twenties Caught Fishes Boat Dimensions Lakes Fishing Fifth Fisherman

Author:Ed Zern

“Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.”

Film Kings Elements Doctors Seven Enjoyed Lions Toys Monkeys Fifth Rama Crow Being There Doctor Zhivago Forrest Gump Trainspotting Lion King Fifth Element

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was assumed to be a fifth column in its midst... Ministers believedm with some justice, that Catholics retained an attachment to their exiled co-religionists, the princes of the House of Stuart. After the Battle of Culloden had confirmed Jacobitism's insignificance, however, government attitudes towards Catholicism began perceptibly and logically to relax.”

“In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.”

Way Made Stills Stories Bigs Winning Sports Race Mistake Seasons Fourth Fifth Made A Mistake Big Mistake I Made A Mistake Winning The Race

Author:Bode Miller

“There are also places of power that reference the fourth and fifth chakras, which are places of balance, and places of power that reference the sixth and seventh chakras, which are places of wisdom.”

Buddhism Balance Fourth Fifth Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is factually incorrect and you had reason to know that it was factually incorrect, then you're guilty of perjury.”

Ifs Knows Way Reason Privilege Guilty Telling The Truth Amendments Swear Fifth Prosecutor Perjury Fifth Amendment

Author:Richard Ben-Veniste

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