Best five & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.”

Feels Years Different Ends Play Actors Bits Sound Five Four Sick Silly Muscles Five Years Drained Cobwebs

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.”

Thinking Years Kind I Can Ends Seems Five Periods Six Years Ago Concrete Dead Ends

Author:James Laughlin

“I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.”

Ends Shows Party Five Episodes Great Experiences

Author:Matthew Fox

“If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Should Book Ends Enough Stuff Hours Five Too Much Cutting Adapted

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I have so much to grapple with, I don't think too much about me. People call it the "dance of a thousand egos" when you make a movie. If only I had time to worry when I was making a movie about what the hell I was doing. It's sort of a marathon every day. And then at the end of it, you beg the producers for five more marathons.”

People Ifs Thinking Ends Worry Hell Five Too Much Thousand Ego Producers Marathon

Author:Andrew Niccol

“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

“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

“I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.”

“In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families.”

People Ifs Persons Ends Happens Morning Five Sea Six Sells Fishes Pounds Going Out Coming Back Indonesia Rice Java Fisheries

Author:Daniel Pauly

“A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armies — it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.”

Thinking Ideas Ends Earth Song Found Five Middle Battle Army Tone Goodbye Saying Goodbye Dead Ends Middle Earth

Author:Billy Boyd

“If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Two Different Ends Fun Party Five Sweet Six Fishes Meals Different Things Chickens Vegetables Recipes Cocktails Shrimp Cocktail Parties Sweet Things

Author:Ina Garten

“The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.”

Art Ends Next House Five Doors Bed Strategy Studios Available Pace

Author:Sara Genn

“Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.”

Thinking Way Want Looks Doe Ends Happens Age Young Five Twenties Suicide Rounds Commit Old Age Mist Twenty Five

Book:Other people: a mystery story

Source: Other people: a mystery story

“Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.”

Writing Ends Pay Five Week Offers Prove Dollars Advertising Ads Prove It Scarcity Week End

Book:Scientific Advertising

Source: Scientific Advertising

“I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in the end - a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.”

Knows Long Ends Would Be Eye Suffering Five Four Feet Century Type Fingers Curious Brown Jane 19th Century Austen Long Suffering Brown Eyes

Author:Peter Greenaway

“Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.”

“When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.”

Should Ends Girl Five Stones Twenties Fingers Indifferent Handsome Twenty One Girlhood Chalk

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.”

Way Long Ends Light Young Nature Sun Fire Five Land Months Mountain Spring Red Mark Blue Plant California Fallen Brown Gray Yellow Stem Coast Fog June Oaks Robes Blooming Haze Mustard

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.”

Source: Later Love Letters of a Musician

“I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.”

Thinking Years Ends Might Would Be Lasts Life Is Cases Five Terrible Hundred Glad Coming To An End

Author:Gore Vidal

“Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.”

Ends Past Sex Half Five Alive Wife Wonderful Berserk

Author:Gavin Ewart

“During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.”

Persons Art Stills Ends Five Generations Forgotten Entertainment Nine Enlightened Despised Kipling

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.”

Years Looks Ends Moments Waiting Differences Five Minutes Degrees Stealing Look Up Present Moment Cigarette Five Minutes Decency Smartphones

Author:Charlie Brooker

“By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.”

“I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done.”

People Thinking World Want Years Looks I Can Ends Done Happens My Own Ability Talking Laughing Five Player Cups League Five Years Trust Me World Cup Premier League Strikers

Author:Nicklas Bendtner

“Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.”

Years Has Beens Book Ends Matter Funny Together Lasts Five Balance Pages Surprise Following Folly Quantity Chapters Looking Back Texture

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume

“I became successful and within five years conquered the world and had the most amazing run. I had so much momentum and adrenaline going, but then it ends and you have to find what level you're going to be on, how enthusiastic you're going to be.”

World Years Ends Running Levels Successful Five Five Years Enthusiastic Momentum Adrenaline Most Amazing

Author:Elton John

“I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.”

World Years Ends Lasts Guy Five Movement Couple Harder Series Eight Nine Rely Throwing Last Year Location Ninety Eighty World Series Mph

Author:Andy Pettitte

“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.”

“At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I'd like to think maybe in five years time I'll look back and I'll forget all about the lost luggage and I'll forget about the horrible hotel, but I'll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time.”

“Normally if I go to one of these things I'm in and out in five minutes, but at Pride of Britain I stay to the end. It's a fantastic show. But it's incredibly hard on the night when you meet all the kids and hear their stories. They do get to you.”

Ifs Ends Hard Stories Shows Kids Night Five Minutes Pride Fantastic Britain Five Minutes

Author:Simon Cowell

“Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.”

Way Doe Book Ends Character Water Five Week New York Changed Singing Lists Mainstream New York Times Sellers Insiders Best Sellers Hitchhiking Times Have Changed Duets

Author:John Waters

“By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.”

People Men World Ends Five Media Tvs Controlled

Author:Michael Moore

“If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.”

Ifs Writing I Can Ends Stories Five Minutes Ready Five Minutes

Author:Richard Price

“This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.”

Men Years Ends Forever Five Heard Century Ought Hundred Rapture

Author:John Adams

“I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.”

Feels Ends Bigs Pain Used Found White Five Band Jokes Heavy Broke Scream Metals Folds Gigs Heavy Metal Rant Falsetto

Author:Ben Folds

“We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will go over time, some of them immediately. Now that means that electronic goods and other things, white goods, coming into Australia, will be cheaper for our community. It also means in many cases that the inputs used by our high-end manufacturers to make a final product are also coming in cheaper than they otherwise would - so it makes those manufacturers more competitive.”

Mean Ends Used Community White Levels Cases Five Products Finals Australia Goods Cents Cheaper Our Community Input Tariffs

Author:Andrew Robb

“I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more then maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day there's no difference between my five dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance. It's not going to make me a better father.”

Ends Happens Father Differences Millions Five Fame Performances Dollars Fifty The End Of The Day Million Dollars

Author:Tom Hardy

“I love what I do and feel really lucky to still love what I do - I want to get out of bed and go to work at least three out of five days a week! My fear is it ends up any less than three days. But design-wise, I've still got an appetite, a lot more I want to say with my work - the story is not nearly complete!”

Want Feels Stills Ends Stories Three Five Wise Week Design Lucky Bed Appetite

Author:Matthew Williamson

“There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.”

Years Ends Reason Three Five Four Proud Five Years Wrong Reasons

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.”

Writing Years Firsts Said Ideas Ends Character Guy Evil Lost Five Majors Decided No Idea Five Years Lunch Once Upon A Time Lost You

Author:Alan Dale

“It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.”

Firsts Children Art Ends Helping Hours Space Practice Five Minutes Masters Ought Decided Manage Staring Swim Capability Five Minutes Observing Hammocks Lounging Staring Into Space

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Well, at the end of our movie Fireproof, we released a book that my brother Stephen and I wrote called The Love Dare. It was for couples. That book had a much larger impact than we expected. As a matter of fact, if I could use the term "overwhelmed," we were. The book went on to become a New York Times bestseller and sold over five-million copies and is now in 28 different countries and languages. So, we were blessed and just surprised at how well that did.”

“Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born?”

Men Years Children Ends Dies Courses Born Millions Five He Man Wall Bones Billions Thirty Insignificant Imports Mao Plentiful Oddballs Great Wall

Book:For the Time Being

Source: For the Time Being

“There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.”

People Years Ends Reason Numbers Five Land Huge Horror Six Majors Evidence Very Good Syria Drought Huge Numbers

Author:Prince Charles

“My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.”

Thinking Years Ends Born Five Brother Argument Arguing Glad My Brother Five Years Principal Pauses Quarrels Objections Five Year Olds

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD, that's it, simple.”

Knows Way Years Long Two Ends Stories Simple Know How Five Tvs Theory Ten Computer Screens Cinema Two Ways Dvds

Author:Eric Fellner

“At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.”

Trying Years Made Ends Enough School Business Acting Five Drama Eight Restaurants Five Years Gas Stations Contracts Small Business Gas Stations

Author:Hugh Jackman

“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.”

“As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.”

Ends Age Five Concerned Dresses Playing Dress Up

Book:Manners

Source: Manners

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