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“If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Five Paid Dollars Columns

Author:Dick Schaap

“I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.”

Three Hours Quality Five Week Waste Quarters Wasting Time Quantity Jogging Quality Not Quantity

Author:Roger Bannister

“When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.”

Writing Years Kind Parent Five Magic Casts Five Years Chests Spells Five Year Olds

Author:Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.”

Years Believe Wells Five Plans Republican Solutions Democrat Servant Five Years Goods Yield Free Market Goods And Services Public Servants Five Year Plans

Author:John Katzman

“I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.”

Thinking Stuff Interesting Company Technology Five Four Seeing New York South Pockets Chicago Valleys Boston Seattle Silicon Silicon Valley Getting Started

Author:Eric Lefkofsky

“I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.”

Thinking Has Beens Faces Lines Watches Five Crime Duty Six Shots Angel Block Buried Bullets Guardian Hollow Save Me Guardian Angel Pow Gunmen Zimmerman

Author:Curtis Sliwa

“I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.”

Different Roles Five Decades Enjoyed Music Business

Author:Peter Asher

“One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.”

People Ifs Want Years Said Millions Five Tvs Industry Dollars Five Years Contracts Million Dollars Do Whatever You Want

Author:Roone Arledge

“I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.”

Five Four Couple Band Clubs

Author:Scott Putesky

“Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.”

Firsts Lasts Lost Five Week Son Six Letters

Author:Dick Ebersol

“I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.”

Ifs Stills Play Used Opportunity Five Six Seasons

Author:Steve Finley

“And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.”

Two Country Poor Millions Cases Five Four Industry Mediums France Peasants Belgium Switzerland Holland Scandinavians Scandinavia

Author:Herman Gorter

“In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.”

Years Hands Five Changed Office Training Flow Five Years Get Back Astronaut Things Have Changed

Author:Linda M. Godwin

“Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.”

Way Together Jobs Parent Five Normal Nine Family Life Normal Family

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“It takes only five minutes to look nice before you go out.”

Looks Five Nice Minutes Five Minutes

Author:Evelyn Lauder

“That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.”

Way Feels Years Use Used Spirit Strong Five Like You Singing Instruments Very Good Hearing My Way Five Years Opera Very Strong Tape

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.”

Giving Years Humor Funny Five Taxes Vote Crush Five Years Bachelors

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“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)

“Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform Freely.”

People World Order Community Natural Justice Simple Five Standards Simplicity Cherish Nurture Conform Simple Living Natural Order

Author:Doris Janzen Longacre

“In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.”

Years Wells Ideas Enough Time Results Pay Five Greater Feet Source Involved Thousand Resources Years Ago Investment Deeper Surface Oil Operations More Time Texas Natural Resources

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me incredibly valuable lessons about the art of taking time-outs. To this day, Bonnie is astutely aware of times when her energy dips too low and resolutely honors her need to rest. To boost her energy, she's been known to sit quietly with a cup of tea, adjourn a workshop we were co-facilitating to take a five-minute breather, or slip out of her own wedding reception to be restored by a few minutes of solitude in the sun.”

“Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.”

Book Inspiration Faith Five Creation Creator Intellect Christian Inspirational Senses Proclaiming Five Senses

Book:The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet

Source: The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet

“The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.”

People Care Political Nations Watches Millions Five News Cables Cable News

Author:David Frum

“[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.”

Years Humans Mean Made Science Five Food Goes On Industry Circumstances Increase Twenties Faster Five Years Twenty Five Ratios Subsistence

Author:Thomas Malthus

“I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.”

Firsts Science Sun Five Planets Moon Seven Rounds Smallest Mercury Saturn Revolving

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.”

Knows Mean Stills Hard Lasts Film Five Minutes Approach Five Minutes

Author:Alex Prager

“Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.”

People Needs Millions Five Majors Bridges Replaced Pittsburgh

Author:Steve Kroft

“Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.”

Two Wanted Five Saws Trouble Feet Car Eight Wide Disaster Bridges Department Inches Brushes Sandwiches Transportation Pennsylvania Sausage Contractor Piers

Author:Steve Kroft

“Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.”

Five Comedy Eight Tone Euphoria Homophobes Passion And Desire

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.”

Film Five Six Direct Seven

Author:Stephen Fry

“I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.”

“You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.”

Years Long Different Ends Lasts Three Given Five Four Periods Exciting Different Experiences

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?" And I was like, "Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something." So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.”

Ifs Said Actors Fun Hours Five Four New York Directors Twenties Yeah Disaster Staying Flirting Couches Eric Lucy

Author:Ben Stiller

“You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.”

Ifs Knows Years Actors Five Lovers Series Hated Five Years If I Could

Author:Julianna Margulies

“I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago - every five years they have a remembrance on D-Day beaches and I would have liked to have been there and done my bit.”

World Years Has Beens War Done Kids Bits Five Four Dad Years Ago My Dad Beach War Of The Worlds Five Years World War Ii Four Years World War I Remembrance D Day

Author:Eddie Izzard

“If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.”

Ifs Actors Asks Five Auditions Really Happy

Author:Bill Nighy

“I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.”

Years Firsts Two Done Government Wanted Five Republican First Time Decided Majority Forty Transparent Things Done Good Years Government Shutdown Bad Years

Author:William J. Clinton

“Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.”

World Years Able Five University Five Years Lectures

Author:Bill Gates

“In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there.”

Ifs Thinking World Play Strong Roles Five Four Car Data Very Strong Platforms Automobile Navigation Nokia

Author:Stephen Elop

“You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.”

Men Firsts Kids School Individual Realizing Five Six

Author:Yelawolf

“Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.”

Knows Children Peace Justice Millions Five Modern One Day Cost Hundred Warfare Shortage Did You Know Modern Warfare

Author:Peter Ustinov

“A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.”

Thinking Knows Two Five Four Conservative Unhappy Radical

Author:Herbert V. Prochnow

“By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.”

Light Age Taken Five Twenties Candle Candle Lights

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number.”

House Realizing Numbers Five Example Fit Standards Angel Infinite Ancient Debate Make Sense Nonsense Finite Theologian Pins Eighteen Discussing

Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.”

Years Facts Bigs Past Form Five Products Kings Scary Fats Five Years Copies Software Manuals Documentation

Book:Dave Barry in Cyberspace

Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace

“The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.”

Firsts Book Moments Lasts Five Minutes Errors Productions Finished Bliss Flaws Five Minutes Doorstep Culmination Moment Of Truth

Book:More Matter: Essays And Criticism

Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism

“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.”

Writing Long Book Ends Process Five Pieces Written Minutes Stage Changed Eight Routine Writing A Book Departure Format One Liner Hbo Drastic

Author:George Carlin

“My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again.”

Beautiful Moving Rooms Principles Five Habit Summer Garden Tables Clean Mess Virgins Trash Unbearable Summer Days Days Like This

Author:Richard Dawkins

“A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.”

“If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.”

Ifs Way Matter Running Success Lost Hours Five Percent Make Sense Seconds Ninety Marathon Outstanding

Author:Ralph Marston