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Source: The works of Thomas Adams: being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses

“If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.”

Ifs Walks Five Streets Minutes Five Minutes Obese

“I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.”

Giving I Can Enough Might Hours Five Car Normal Six Give Me Speed Driving Miles Because I Can Buzz Driving On

Author:Jenson Button

“I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.”

Writing Matter Shows Morning Five Air Goes On Picks Theater No Matter What Radio Cooks Clock Lakes Saturday Friday Deadline Adrenaline Monologues Lake Wobegon Friday Morning

Author:Garrison Keillor

“The most important thing in life is human affection. Without it one cannot achieve genuine happiness. And if we want a happier life, a happier family, happier neighbours or a happier nation, the key is inner quality. Even if the five billion human beings that inhabit the earth become millionaires, without inner development there cannot be peace or any lasting happiness.”

“When it comes to cooking, five years ago I felt guilty "just adding water." Now I want to bang the tube against the countertop and have a five-course meal pop out. If it comes with plastic silverware and a plate that self-destructs, all the better.”

Ifs Want Years Self Courses Felt Water Five Years Ago Cooking Pops Guilty Meals Five Years Plastic Plates Bangs Tubes Self Destruct

Author:Erma Bombeck

“There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.”

World Firsts Able Five Growing Dying This World Thirds Sick Deny Accomplish Cease Fourth Fifth Growing Old Dissolution Being Sick

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I get the Playboy thing a lot. People assume I go out with bimbos. I couldn`t go out with bimbos if I tried! I scare them off! The women that like me are smart. So I go to the Playboy Mansion four or five times a year, but people think I go all the time.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Five Four Smart Assuming Like Me Scare Mansions Playboy

Author:Bill Maher

“I have five kids from three marriages. I come from a trailer park. My sister and brother are both gay. I have multiple personalities.”

Kids Three Five Brother Personality Gay Parks My Sister Multiple Brothers And Sisters Trailers Multiple Personalities Trailer Park

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.”

Thinking Trying Different Shows Problem Form Asks Five Four Minutes Starting Drawing Different Things Five Minutes Playing Music Starting Out

Author:Demetri Martin

“Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.”

Men Kind Book Guy Three Walks Five Return Library Miles Snow Cents Barefoot Library Books

Author:Jack Benny

“I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When I reached the psychiatrist, I said, Give me a gun, I'll wipe out the whole German Army in five minutes. He said, You're crazy! I said, Write it down!”

Giving Writing Said Stills War Whole Lasts Suffering Five Crazy Minutes Gun Give Me Army Shock Wounded Five Minutes Wipe Psychiatrist

Author:Jackie Mason

“After I got divorced, I said to myself, I will never, ever get married again. It was in cement. I went through a really rough twenty-five years, but it happened again. I fell in love. I told her, Baby, I don't want a prenuptial agreement. This is it. Everyone told me I was nuts. Well, my new wife and I are married six years and we get along great. You can make anything work if you're both givers.”

Ifs Want Years Wells Said Five Wife Happened Baby Six Married Twenties Five Years Agreement Rough Nuts Divorced Giver Twenty Five Cement

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“When you walk up five flights of stairs at four in the morning, there's definitely a hooker involved.”

Walks Morning Five Four Involved Flight Stairs

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“It upset me that, five days after the hurricane hit down in New Orleans, the President's plan was for a day of prayer. I would have thought a truck of food. A day of prayer. Now, maybe I'm mistaken here and, again, I'm not a scientific expert, but isn't a hurricane officially an act of God? Isn't a day of prayer kind of redundant? Hasn't God already made up his mind on that sort of thing? So we do a day of prayer. The President has his stupid day of prayer. Three days later, Hurricane Rita hits. Somebody must have said something... something like, is that all you got?”

Mind Kind Made Said Three President Prayer Five Plans Stupid Upset Experts Mistaken Truck New Orleans Hurricanes Redundant

Author:Jon Stewart

“Planet Hollywood has shrunk from seventy-five locations around the world to just over thirty-five over the past two years. No new Planet Hollywoods are opening, which in turn has caused a 100 percent decline in opportunities for Bruce Willis to play the harmonica.”

World Years Two Play Past Turns Opportunity Five Planets Percent Hollywood Opening Around The World Thirty Two Years Decline Location Seventies Over The Past Harmonicas

Author:Jon Stewart

“I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.”

Thinking Men Way Years Wells Looks Littles Said Talking Boys Five Thousand Bigger Dollars Toys Businessman Seventies Little Boys

Author:Jonathan Winters

“Seventy-five percent of all Americans believe that angels are real. Which is amazing when you consider that forty percent of all Americans think DNA evidence is unreliable.”

Thinking Believe Real Five Percent Evidence Angel Forty Seventies Dna Unreliable Dna Evidence

Author:Richard Jeni

“In the United States economic system you can lose big or you can win big. If you lose you wind up wearing a Hefty bag and sleeping in a doorway. If you win you can have sex with Catherine Zeta Jones when you're seventy-five.”

Ifs States Bigs Winning Sex Loses Sleep United United States Five Economic Wind Bags Seventies Doorways Economic Systems Sleeping In You Can Win Zeta

Author:Richard Jeni

“You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland?”

Ifs Five Feet Evidence Plant What If Suspects Tall Cop Shelves Disneyland

Author:Greg Giraldo

“If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.”

Ifs Trying Watches Issues Five Imagine Minutes Balance Disaster Five Minutes Watch Me

Author:Greg Giraldo

“The genius' behind the new Rocky movie decided to call it Rocky Balboa so that we'll probably forget that it's number six. Or Rocky Balboa can't count past five.”

Past Forget Numbers Behinds Five Genius Six Decided

Author:Doug Benson

“I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income.”

Shows Five Week New York Source Seven Income Sole Saturday Friday

Author:Ray Romano

“In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs.”

Done Together Lasts Five Four Drug Seasons Snow Thirty Twelve Sixty Lightning Thunder Ninety Last Day

Author:Lewis Black

“My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic.”

Men Kids Boys Five Six Heroic Stepfathers

Author:Tim Allen

“In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.”

“He's comming to meet me on Sun. Cant wait!!... Please God let him love me!!... This could be it [followed by five happy faces].... Hes going to publish my pictures Im so glad I didn't sleep with him either!... I hate for men to want sex all the time. I hate sex anyway. (1992, diary entry as she prepares for a meeting with Paul Marciano, head of Guess.)”

Men Want Faces Hate Sex Waiting Sleep Sun Five Please I Hate Meetings Glad Cant Publish Diaries Entry Happy Face Diary Entries

Author:Anna Nicole Smith

“Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.”

Knows Action Can Do Differences Issues Five Minutes Please Solutions Making A Difference Educate Five Minutes

Author:Matt Damon

“I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.”

Stills Used Five Used To Be Comedian Just Do It

Author:Adam Sandler

“I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?”

Looks Doe Real Sound White Five Feet Skins Scar Look At Me Geek Acne White Skin Pasties

Author:Mike Myers

“There's a little triangle - five left-footed players.”

Littles Left Five Player England Triangles

Author:Ron Atkinson

“It's been hard to be a show in L.A. and be trendsetting, because the fashions are in New York... Not to mention that most actresses are all, give or take, the same size, between five-two and five-five, and 95 to 125 pounds.”

Giving Two Hard Shows Five Fashion New York Size Actresses Pounds

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“Having a baby, it's like a five year commitment.”

Years Five Baby Commitment Five Years Having A Baby

Author:Chelsea Handler

“I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.”

Way Years I Can Life Is Five Plans Lovers Lists Five Years Five Year Plans

Author:Jenna Fischer

“I am so happy, each and every day that I come to set. Some days, I'll be there 12 hours, and it feels like five minutes have gone by.”

Feels Hours Gone Five Minutes Five Minutes

Author:Fiona Gubelmann

“To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.”

Years Names Church Five Normal Miracle Catholic Saint Five Years Procedures Catholic Church

Author:Chris Matthews

“I have probably four or five male friends who have a real strong masculine side but some degree of a feminine side, too. They're pretty rare, whereas I think women with a masculine side are much less rare.”

Thinking Real Strong Sides Five Four Degrees Males Feminine Masculine

Author:John Malkovich

“My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.”

Firsts Mother Three Father Five Teacher Hearing Pianist Violinist Music Teacher Hearing Music

Author:Michala Petri

“One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.”

Firsts Film Audience Five Minutes Great Things Five Minutes

Author:William Mapother

“Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural. Whether it's a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.”

Hands Used Games Felt Natural Millions Five Comfortable Summer Shots Balls Shooting Ties Summer Time

Author:Larry Bird

“The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because we had real real in the room. You have real real in the cut every four or five shots, so you have this constant yardstick built into the footage by virtue of there being no real robot there. So it became the standard of photo reality that the VFX team had to match.”

People Real Reality Rooms Virtue Five Four Cutting Team Standards Shots Built Constant Digital Get Away Dozen Robots Domain Yardsticks

Author:Shawn Anthony Levy

“Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.”

People Years Five Hundred Empty Mars

Author:Ray Bradbury

“It's funny, because it's like the fight when you watch it, it's probably going to be like five minutes, but it's taken us like a month to shoot it so I think what was really interesting was that instead of going through an entire fight sequence, you're doing one or two moves over and over and over, so I'd say it's less exhausting than actually training, because you're not really constantly going over the choreography, like the whole entire thing with everybody. You're just doing that one part that they need in the shot.”

Thinking Needs Two Whole Moving Fighting Interesting Watches Taken Five Minutes Months Training Shots Five Minutes Sequence Really Interesting Exhausting Choreography

Author:Ellen Wong

“You don't often get what you ask for, and I got exactly that. I got a show that was on cable, that I could shoot five months a year and go be mommy the rest of the time, and be with a cast and crew that I really, really love, adore and respect. I got all of that.”

Years Shows Asks Five Months Casts Crew Adore Cables

Author:Angie Harmon

“That being said, in my top five favorite movies, two of them are Alien and Aliens. I love to laugh, and I love to make people laugh. I love comedy, but I also love the darker things in life. I guess I'm an extremist. I'm an adrenaline junkie. Just cruising along at a normal capacity really doesn't do anything for me.”

People Said Two Laughing Five Comedy Normal Capacity Aliens Things In Life Extremist Making People Laugh Adrenaline Junkie

Author:Angie Harmon

“And so getting to meet Aubrey Plaza and Mae Whitman and getting to know two awesome girls who are just kick-ass. It's been nice that way where we probably wouldn't have worked together on any other crazy project. And just like you know Chris Evans teaching us all the high-five because he's dealing with like non-jocks (laughter) and we're like yeah!”

Knows Way Two Together Girl Five Nice Crazy Teaching Like You Projects Laughter Yeah Ass Kicks Kick Ass Jocks Mae

Author:Alison Pill

“Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that.”

Self Would Be Watches Break Five Minutes Wall Grew Grew Up Jokes Exciting Currents Billions Cynical Fourth Five Minutes Muppet

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“I just read that one scene for Emily in New Moon, and it was pretty simple and straightforward. They liked that I did it really natural. They were like, "That was great!," even with what little I had. Sometimes just having those little scenes are a lot tougher than if you have five pages because you have to go from 0 to 100 in a snap.”

Ifs Littles Sometimes Natural Simple Five Scene Moon Pages Straightforward Snaps Emily New Moon

Author:Tinsel Korey

“Most of the time, it just sat there in my body, until the weekend. After five or six takes of crying, your body does not want to cry anybody. Your body is like, "I'm over this, can we start laughing, or something?," but you have to keep the emotion. It's a really weird process and it definitely just stays with you.”

Want Doe Body Process Emotion Laughing Five Cry Six Your Body Sat Weekend Really Weird

Author:Tinsel Korey

“The first time you went to the gym, to be trained and worked out, there'd be about four or five wrestlers, they'd take you to heavy calisthenics and then they beat the tar out of you... after you got tired. If you came back the next day they'd do the same thing. After about four days of you surviving this punishment, then maybe they might show you how to wrestle. That was to teach respect.”

Ifs Firsts Shows Might Next Teach Five Four Beats First Time Tired Heavy Punishment Gym Next Day Surviving Wrestler Calisthenics

Author:George Steele

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