“I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.” ThinkingTwoBodyAbleCertainThreeVoiceFictionFivePaperProfessionFiction WritersSchizophrenic Author:Ridley Pearson
“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.” MenYearsMindFirstsCertainTakenFiveChildhoodYouthColorWindBrokenMen And WomenHorseRoundsIllThirtyDullSixtyPassiveAdolescenceConfusingMerryThirty YearsWithdrawalRoller CoasterCoastersDizzyUnexplainedMerry Go RoundPastel Book:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
“There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.” SelfCareTodaySpiritualYoungCertainSocialCompassionDoubtFiveModernChildhoodEffectsDisciplineCivilizationSkillsDiseaseTraditionMethodDuesNo DoubtTemplesSurroundDeclineProtectedInitiativeInherentSelf DisciplinePresent DayPoisonousAvailabilityEarly ChildhoodCraftsmanshipStimulantsSpiritual Death Author:Kurt Hahn
“It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.” I CanRememberCertainBitsSoundFiveFootballAmountLuckCreditManagersSoccerAfternoonIrelandChairmanKevinPintsGuinness Author:Steve Coppell
“It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.” PeopleThinkingShouldWritingKindPersonsIdeasHelpingGovernmentMightJobsCertainHoursFiveFourWeekOfficeCapableAreasGood IdeasDistributionMonstrousReceiptsGovernment Jobs Author:Grace Slick
“The success factor is a combination of intuition and honestly, it's mostly only intuition. A design business is inherently dependent upon the intuition of its chief designer. Luckily I have a track record that if you show me five pairs of shoes I will almost always pick the one pair that will sell the best. It's just a gift I have for mass taste - a link with what people want in a certain moment in time.” PeopleIfsWantMomentsShowsCertainRecordsFiveDesignTasteMassPicksSellsShoesTrackIntuitionHonestlyFactorsChiefsCombinationDesignerDependentPairsLinksShow MeMoments In TimePair Of ShoesTrack Record Author:Monita Rajpal
“Beauty is undefinable in language. It's something that you see when you see it, or you feel when you feel it, or you hear when you hear it. It usually encompasses all five of the senses. It can't exist without it being a somehow sensorial experience. But, I don't think it's quantifiable. Nothing is really quantifiable. Nothing is certain in love and friendship. We all try to understand these things.” ThinkingFeelsTryingCertainLanguageFiveSensesLove And Friendship Author:Colin Farrell
“I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.” ChildrenI CanAgeRememberCertainFiveForgottenConvinced Author:Roald Dahl
“I think the misconceptions, there are certain people that are fixed in those with those beliefs, and been in those for twenty-five years, you're not going to change them.... What you've got to do is basically talk to the future about what you want to with the country.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsCountryCertainBeliefChangeFiveTwentiesWhat You WantFixedFive YearsMisconceptionTwenty Five Author:William M. Daley
“I believe that life is meaningless without hope, which is really what that line is about. Without hope, what are we living for? I wouldn't wanna see where exactly I'd be in five years. I wouldn't wanna know my exact date of death. I wouldn't want to know my exact cause of death. Certain things I just want to allow to take place rather than just have the knowledge beforehand.” KnowsWantYearsBelieveLife IsCertainI BelieveCausesLinesFiveFive YearsMeaninglessWithout Hope Author:Joe Budden
“Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.” PeopleKnowsWayNeedsFeelsDifferentUseMightTogetherCertainThreeForceBitsFiveFourSingingPicksTechniqueSingersCombinationNo PointAlchemyInterchange Author:Bob Dylan
“On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m going to be able to get started. And the routine of doing this six days a week puts a little drop in a bucket each day, and that’s the key. Because if you put a drop in a bucket every day, after three hundred and sixty-five days, the bucket’s going to have some water in it.” IfsLooksLittlesLongDoeAbleCertainThreeWaterWonderFiveWeekKeysSixHundredSittingScalesEach DayRoutineSixtyBuckets Author:John McPhee
“In a certain sense, these were lessons I learned by playing with Indian musicians. The rhythmic forms that they use are very complex, and very challenging. In order to play in fifteen, or eleven, or seven or even five, you have to have mastered that time in order to be able to be free with the music.” PlayUseAbleFormCertainOrderChallengesFiveLessonsMusicianComplexesSevenIndianFifteenEleven Author:John McLaughlin
“There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.” ChristianCertainFivePrayingUnderstood Author:Cathy Hughes
“Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.” MenMayYoungCertainEnjoyPleasureFiveHabitSixDressesSuitsEveningClockYoung ManDroppingSlippingDrawbacks Book:Succeeding With What You Have Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you, because you will validate the existence of this dimension. You will see what your relationship to it is.” MomentsHandsCertainDifficultExistenceForeverFiveDimensionsOur RelationshipDifficult Moments Author:Terence McKenna
“I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but one thing I know for certain, and have known since the age of five or six, is that I really can't stand the God of Abraham. In fact, I consider him to constitute the pattern to which every true asshole I have ever known in my life has pretty well conformed.” KnowsYearsMindWellsIdeasFactsAgeCertainReadingFictionKnownFiveTroubleOne ThingSixScience FictionPatternsConfusedDeitiesAbrahamVery True Author:Michael Chabon
“Certain roles, I just won't invest in. I'll go in and audition, but I might not spend five hours trying to figure out what the character is really about or go so deep into it. I might just learn the lines and go in and try my best because I know it's not safe for me to love the character or to fall in love with the idea of the role.” KnowsTryingIdeasCharacterMightCertainFallHoursLinesRolesFiveFiguresSafeFalling In LoveAuditions Author:Madeline Zima
“There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions, because there is such a large variety of dispositions. I believe that each individual should embark upon a spiritual path that is best suited to his or her mental disposition, natural inclination, temperament, belief, family and cultural background.” ThinkingWayNeedsShouldBelieveHumansDifferentSpiritualCertainIndividualBeliefI BelieveNaturalHuman BeingsPathFiveBillionsBackgroundsVarietyDispositionInclinationTemperamentSpiritual PathDifferent Religions Author:Dalai Lama
“You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising for the audience coming to see the movie.” KnowsGivingKindStillsI CanEnoughUseFilmCertainWatchesAudienceFiveMaterialsHundredMarketingSurprising Author:Christopher McQuarrie