“I used to play Barbies with my Mormon neighbor friend; it was always, "Oh, we're going to go on a date. Ken's taking us out, and we're going with Ken on a date." And I was like, "We're parachuting behind enemy lines to save the Jews." That's how I played Barbies. I was told when I was a girl that every Jewish woman has to have five children to replace three fifths of our people that were killed. That's how I was raised.” PeopleChildrenPlayUsedGirlThreeLinesBehindsEnemyFiveGoes OnRaisedJewNeighborBarbieNeighbors Friends Author:Roseanne Barr
“Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.” LooksSaidLastsNightBehindsTalkingBoysFiveSonBedSouthThirtySatWheelsBagsLooking GoodLast NightHeadingsKateHometownPackingPacking Up Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Burning 2000 people took about 24 hours in the five stoves. Usually we could manage to cremate only about 1700 to 1800. We were thus always behind in our cremating because as you can see it was much easier to exterminate by gas than to cremate, which took so much more time and labor.” PeopleHoursBehindsFiveEasierLaborManageBurningGasMore TimeStoves Author:Rudolf Hoss
“My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.” LooksMotherFatherWalksBehindsStepsFive Author:Shazia Mirza
“I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.” KnowsWholeUsePoliticalThreeProcessBehindsWatchesFiveFourWeekSceneBehind The Scenes Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.” EndsBehindsFiveFourNew YorkHighestOppositesWestCaliforniaJust OneBoastPercentagesJerseySpectrumVirginiaAlaskaMississippiNew JerseyPassportsResidentsAlabamaKentuckyMassachusettsArkansasWest VirginiaDelaware Author:Richard Florida
“What happens behind your eyes is more important than what happens in front of them. This is a reversal from the way that we have been taught and the way that we had experienced the world as five sensory humans.” WorldWayHumansHas BeensImportantHappensEyeBehindsFiveFrontsTaughtSensoryReversal Author:Gary Zukav
“I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.” IfsWritingMindStoriesBehindsNovelFiveFourSceneCompetitionSurpriseAgentsAwardsMuseumsChaptersCeremonyOf My MindBehind The ScenesAward Ceremonies Author:Kate Atkinson
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenTwoRealAgeWantedAmericaYoungMotherChallengesBehindsWatchesStruggleFiveMissingTelevisionTvsBalanceSceneSixTwentiesJournalistFive YearsConcertsYoung WomenTwenty FiveBehind The ScenesWatch MePageantViolinistReal MeMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson
“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” ThinkingWayArtistPayBehindsRichFiveRocksBandWindowSellingProducersManagersMatesSplitsDrummerCdsRock BandsPlatinumDrive Thru Author:Steven Page
“The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.” PersonsStillsStatesUsedBitsTermUnitedBehindsUnited StatesFiveMinutesEnglandTwentiesLocalsIdiotOfficialsShopsCategoriesClothingsAcceptableFive MinutesLunaticTwenty FiveDeficiencyOutdatedImbecilesEuphemismDisadvantagedFauxFaux Pas Book:Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife Source: Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife
“The five rings of marriage: there's the engagement ring and the wedding ring, but there are three others, too: the boring, the suffering and the lawyering. I watched it for 20 years from behind a bar in Ft. Lauderdale. I prefer to stay single.” YearsSufferingThreeBehindsFiveBoringRingsBarsEngagementWedding RingStaying Single Author:Steve Trotter
“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.” PastForgetNumbersBehindsFiveGeniusSixDecided Author:Doug Benson
“Playboys' was an authentic junkie record. Art Pepper was just out of jail, Chet was arrested a week after the session, and piano player Carl Perkins would die two years later. When the record was recorded I was behind bars myself. In 1955 I was caught with narcotics and had to serve almost five years. Luckily, I was allowed to keep my saxophone in the cell, and I composed a lot during the time. They had to come fetch the music for Playboys from jail.” YearsArtTwoDiesBehindsRecordsFivePlayerWeekCaughtBarsCellsPianoFive YearsTwo YearsJailSessionArrestedJunkiePlayboyPeppersSaxophoneNarcoticsFetch Author:Jimmy Heath