Best Five Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 34

“I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.”

Want Trying Done Play Film Morning Five Bed Exciting

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“Well, let's be clear, I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances.”

Years Wells Clear Five Stage Balance Budgets Five Years

Author:Rand Paul

“The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music.”

Ifs Can Do Simple Five Four Movement Drama Tasks Importance Practicals Narrative Sequence Theoretical Procedures Involving Retarded Power Of Music

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

“In my next life, I'd like to come back five foot, two inches, with the best ass and tits you've ever seen.”

Two Next Five Feet Ass Inches Next Life

Author:Andie MacDowell

“A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard. I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.”

Should Firsts Different Would Be Party Five Heard Republican First Time Thirds Green Democrat Response Debate Candidates Progressive Overwhelming Third Parties Green Party

Author:Peter Camejo

“How much we have to hydrate out here in this kind of heat and humidity. I think the most I have ever taken down in one day of fluids is five gallons - a gallon per match. If we didn't replace our fluids, we would probably keel over and die.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Dies Taken Five One Day Heat Fluid Gallons Keel Humidity Heat And Humidity

Author:Karch Kiraly

“[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however humble the one and however powerful the other. A man with five dollars in the bank can call to account the corporation with five billion dollars in assets-and the two will be heard as equals before the law.”

Men Doe Two Action Law Justice Powerful Five Heard Accounts Dollars Humble Billions Corporations Assets Rulers Rule Of Law

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958

“The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.”

Use Age Three Speak Boys Five Taught Periods Twenties Bows Three Things Speak The Truth Persian

Author:Herodotus

“I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys. Boys love their mothers whereas girls can be so mean to each other.”

Ifs Want Mean Children Mother Girl Boys Five My Friends

Author:Adele

“Use between three and five photos in your gallery. Galleries with more photos are more competitive, but after five they seem to pass a point of saturation and diminishing return.”

Use Seems Three Five Return Gallery Saturation Diminishing Returns Saturation Point

Author:Amy Webb

“Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you're online, go ahead and IM them back if you want. Otherwise, wait twenty-two to twenty-three hours between email contacts for the first few messages. Don't send messages while most people are sleeping, even if you're wide-awake. Shoot for business hours or just after dinnertime.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Two Three Waiting Hours Sleep Five Sweet Messages Twenties Sentences Wide Contact Awake Instant Online Email Initials Twenty Two Wide Awake Short And Sweet

Author:Amy Webb

“Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).”

People Attention Five Acceptance Habit Praise Appreciation Appearance Etc Admiration Compliment Clothings Approval Listeners Saying Thank You Good Listener

Author:Brian Tracy

“There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.”

Should Age Boys Doubt Five Dog Healthy Normal No Doubt Fifty Forty

Author:Robert Benchley

“When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, you say, 'Christ, I've said this five times today.' It gets fun when you get so bored you start making it all up.”

Said Whole Stories Today Fun Christ Five Bored Interviews Finding Yourself So Bored

Author:Christian Bale

“As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons”

Thinking Way Artist Pay Behinds Rich Five Rocks Band Window Selling Producers Managers Mates Splits Drummer Cds Rock Bands Platinum Drive Thru

Author:Steven Page

“The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing the vast and unchecked powers that are typically vested in leaders in the name of war. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.”

“We are on the earth, and they tell us of heaven; we are human beings, and they tell us of angels and devils; we are matter, and they tell us of spirit; we have five senses whereby to admit truths, and a reasoning faculty by which to build our belief upon them; and they tell us of dreams dreamed thousands of years ago, which our experience flatly contradicts.”

Years Humans Matter Dream Earth Spirit Belief Heaven Human Beings Five Devil Angel Years Ago Senses Reasoning Faculty Five Senses Angel And Devil

Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.”

Five Percent Including Statistics Ninety

Author:Keith Waterhouse

“If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.”

Ifs Knows Made Stories Age Five Fool Myth Made Up Stories

Author:Suetonius

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.”

People Ifs Thinking Country Would Be Night House White Five White House Every Night Invited Thrilling

Author:Andy Warhol

“I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.”

Years Five Four Months Chrysler

Author:Lee Iacocca

“I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.”

Ifs Facts Moving Guy Found Waiting Perfect Business Economy Five Crazy Regret Percent Personal Growth Seventies Never Regret I Never Regret

Author:Lee Iacocca

“In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'”

Five Century Periods Constitution Asking Sorry Copies Cartoon Librarian Englishmen 19th Century I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.”

Important America Black Issues Environment Five Four Rights Waste Fundamentals Civil Rights Neighborhood Toxic Dump Toxic Waste

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.”

Mind Body Rich Five Senses Offering Gardening Five Senses

Author:Allen Lacy

“In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.”

Ifs Years Made Stills Used Roles Five Needed Computer Mass Twenties Productions Boards Five Years Buying Mechanic Automobile Programmers Twenty Five Mass Production

Author:Gerald Weinberg

“Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.”

Years Five Capitalism Socialism Five Years Contests Seventies Capitalism And Socialism

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“After a Canadian has been referred to a specialist, the waiting list for gynecological surgery is four to 12 weeks, cataract removal 12 to 18 weeks, tonsillectomy three to 36 weeks and neurosurgery five to 30 weeks.”

Has Beens Three Waiting Five Four Week Lists Surgery Specialists Removal Neurosurgery

Author:Walter E. Williams

“Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.”

Suffering Games Five Four Player Tough Soccer Injury Soccer Player

Author:Dave Barry

“Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process.”

People World Years Humans Said Values Process Differences Brain Five Minutes Investing Five Years Five Minutes Human Brain Buffett Wiring Warren Buffet

Author:Mohnish Pabrai

“The axe is fifteen pounds. You have to make sure you don't hurt or hit someone. And hit the beats, because they have five cameras. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.”

Looks Real Challenges Hurt Five Beats Cameras Pounds Fifteen

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.”

Giving Years Used Three Actors Difficult Audience Five England Seven Agents Five Years Three Years Auditions

Author:Julian Fellowes

“Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.”

Needs Firsts Country Five Strategy Sixty Doing Nothing Coalitions

Author:Jeb Bush

“I don't know if any of you feel this way, but it's like eventually, you see a woman come on screen and you go, "Oh, thank God!" You just sort of need a break from all this testosterone, which happened, I think, in one of my films, The Hurt Locker. I was in it for like five minutes, and people were like, "You were in that movie!" And I was like, "Well, kind of." And they were like, "No, you were!" 'Cause they needed a woman!”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Needs Feels Wells Kind Film Causes Hurt Break Five Happened Minutes Like You Needed Screens Thank God Five Minutes Lockers Testosterone Hurt Locker

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show. It's really twenty minutes. So you have to with a pilot introduce all your characters, set up the premise in a way that shows the potential for a series and make it funny and do it all in about thirty-five or forty pages. It's very hard.”

Way Writing Littles Real Hard Character Shows Hours Space Half Economy Five Minutes Pages Twenties Series Thirty Forty Pilots Introducing Estates Premises Half Hours

Author:Jonathan M. Goldstein

“Five women working together is never going to be easy. It's a lot. But God is so incredible, in terms of the timing, because we are all married with kids, in our late 30s and 40s. It's a different stage in our lives. It's not about who is going to be the one that's going to pop.”

Different Kids Together Easy Term Five Our Lives Stage Late Married Incredibles Pops Working Together Timing

Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop the balls, so I really have to prioritize and use every free second I have and maximize it. I wake up early, try to get sleep, but try to write for at least three hours every day. A really nice day for me is writing ten hours. I love that. Hasn't been a lot of that recently, but every free second I have I'm doing that.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Sometimes Use Three Hours Sleep Five Nice Ten Balls Wake Up Really Nice Up Early Prioritize Nice Day

Author:James Ponsoldt

“If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.”

Ifs Years Might Used Five Planes Five Years Making Time

Book:Andy Warhol: the late work

Source: Andy Warhol: the late work

“I woke up one day and I was like, "I don't have anything to save for myself for the future." That's when I started archiving things. I take four or five things that are really key to each collection, and I restore them or, in some cases, remake parts of them, and archive them.”

Cases Five Four Keys One Day Collections Remakes Archives

Author:Jason Wu

“It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.”

People Knows Years Wells Said Book Character Stories Remember Reading Five Havens Versions Producers Defined Five Years Fascinating Wonderland Five Year Olds

Author:Johnny Depp

“People say that you want to be varied in your career, and I've done so many things and am very appreciative. But, the one thing I've never done and wanted to do was to be a regular on a TV show, where you get 22 weeks of the year to develop and play a character. I've done arcs of five or eight episodes on shows, but I'd like to have a character that's rich enough and deep enough to want to explore and live with for a few years. Playing the same character, but doing different scenes seems very exciting to me.”

People Want Years Different Done Enough Play Character Shows Seems Wanted Careers Rich Five One Thing Week Tvs Scene Exciting Eight Episodes Tv Shows Arcs Appreciative

Author:Jim Piddock

“My aunt was a fashion model and I happened to go to her agency with her, one day, when I was five. A talent agent said, "You should come talk to us." I did a few things. I did an indie movie and commercials, and stuff.”

Should Said Stuff Five Happened Talent Fashion One Day Models Agents Agency Aunt Fashion Model Indie Movie

Author:Ellar Coltrane

“I get a lot of butterflies at auditions because I get so scared. It's scary because you've never met the people before. You have to meet them, and you have to hurry up and get to know them in five seconds. And then, you have to spill your emotions out to these strangers. It's funny.”

People Knows Emotion Five Mets Scared Scary Stranger Seconds Butterfly Auditions Spills

Author:Elle Fanning

“Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.”

“Netflix will know everything. Netflix will know when a person stops watching it. They have all of their algorithms and will know that this person watched five minutes of a show and then stopped. They can tell by the behavior and the time of day that they are going to come back to it, based on their history.”

Knows Persons Shows Five Minutes Behavior Five Minutes Algorithms Netflix Time Of Day

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“I get ill when I'm writing because I'm so focused on it, and it can take a year or two. Often, I knock out the first draft very quickly. I can do it in five to six weeks. Then, it takes a year of rewriting it and rewriting it.”

Writing Years Firsts I Can Two Can Do Five Week Six Ill Focused I Can Do It Rewriting

Author:Eran Creevy

“When I'm on the set, I take five minutes to find the best angle for a scene, and then we just shoot it and it looks exactly what you see on screen because I don't touch it afterwards. I never think about it, before being on the set. That's my thing. I love to be stuck.”

Thinking Looks Five Minutes Scene Screens Stuck Angle Five Minutes Things I Love

Author:Quentin Dupieux

“The money has to be deferred with what they call "clawback," which means they can get it back if I lose it all. So that guy making ten million a year selling credit default swaps, if we're going to keep five million of it in escrow for ten years, and with the right to go back and get it, if he starts losing money, then we're going to give people the right incentives not too take so much risk.”

People Ifs Giving Years Mean Guy Loses Millions Five Risk Ten Losing Credit Selling Incentives That Guy Default Losing Money Credit Default Swap

Author:Richard Thaler

Five Quotes

Related topics

Five Quotes