“I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.” FoundFeltFiveGrewEatingGrew UpMeatVegetarianTexasEating Meat Author:Dean Ornish
“I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!” YearsWellsBookActionUsedReadingFunFeltHoursRoomsHalfFiveSharePrivacyCommentMy SisterApartmentBathroomHalf A Year Author:Gail Carson Levine
“Doing Prometheus was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat, it felt like being a part of movie history.” RealActorsFeltFiveImaginePlanetsTreatsAliensPrometheus Author:Rafe Spall
“The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody.” PeopleWayLastsFoundFeltFiveMysteryCallingYeahScareBusSixtyGrossUnsolved Mysteries Author:Kathleen Madigan
“I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.” FeelsWritingWellsLastsThreeFeltDifficultNumbersSuccessfulFiveMinutesListsFive MinutesDifficult Days Author:Jacqueline Briskin
“I heard Joby Talbot's Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact - visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short five minutes became our keystone to unlocking a strangely seductive score that tensions the aggressive force of the White Stripes with the enigmatic beauty of Talbot's own compositions.” ForceFeltWhiteFivePiecesHeardMinutesDirectImpactHungryTensionScoreAggressiveCompositionOrchestraFive MinutesSeductiveStripesVisceralKeystonesEnigmaticUnlockingWhite StripesHovercrafts Author:Wayne McGregor
“My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.” WayWellsHas BeensFilmFeltWalksSituationFiveMinutesI RealizedFive MinutesBiggest FearOverreaching Author:Anne Hathaway
“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!” IfsThinkingMenGivingYearsHas BeensYoungGirlFeltWealthFreedomMarriagePovertyFiveGiving UpMarriedTwentiesFive YearsFiftyDollsTwenty OneHousekeepers Author:Susan B. Anthony
“I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.” YearsLongDifferentWould BeTogetherFeltLosesChanceFiveExampleResponsePursueComicEnjoyedFive YearsRejectedUnemployedGood ChanceHobbesComic StripsLong Road Author:Bill Watterson
“I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.” ThinkingShouldTryingYearsKindChildrenIdeasWantedFeltFivePlansClockFive YearsPrisonerFive Year PlansClock TickingBiological Clock Author:Kristen Stewart
“I wasn't allowed to watch MTV before school, but somehow I managed to, when I was five or six and Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" came on. She was so odd and dark, and I immediately felt some kind of connection with her. She was also the first person I admired for their looks.” FirstsLooksKindPersonsSchoolFeltDarkWatchesFiveSixConnectionsCriminalsVideoOddApplesFirst PersonMtv Author:Sky Ferreira
“I have a mouse, but don't have a mouse driver for MINIX and have never felt the need to write one. Typing "rm x y z" is a lot faster than clicking five times and then having to convince the system that you really, truly, mean it and this is not a mistake and that you are consenting adult over 18 and that you completely understand the consequences and you still want to do it.” WantNeedsWritingMeanStillsFeltMistakeFiveAdultsConsequenceFasterConvinceDriversMiceTyping Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum
“I traveled the world ten times over doing something I never thought I'd do in a million years. I found myself in Tokyo, Japan. I (was in) a Dell Computer commercial, the first thing I had ever done, and I fell in love with it. I fell in love with the green screens, I fell in love with (everything). The translator was explaining everything to me. It was a passion like I had never felt before. I came back and it took me five years to really accept that that was okay.” WorldYearsFirstsDonePassionFoundFeltAcceptingMillionsFiveTenComputerOkayGreenScreensFive YearsJapanTraveledExplainingTranslatorsTokyoDell Author:Drew Waters
“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.” IfsWantYearsSelfCoursesFeltWaterFiveYears AgoCookingPopsGuiltyMealsFive YearsPlasticPlatesBangsTubesSelf Destruct Author:Erma Bombeck
“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.” HandsUsedGamesFeltNaturalMillionsFiveComfortableSummerShotsBallsShootingTiesSummer Time Author:Larry Bird
“The day I'm in England performing, English security let a man in a Batman suit climb Buckingham Palace. I felt so much safer... Batman was on the wall of Buckingham Palace for five hours. Wouldn't happen in America - three minutes: dead Batman.” MenHappensAmericaThreeFeltHoursFiveMinutesSecurityWallEnglandSuitsPerformingClimbsPalacesBuckingham Palace Author:Christopher Titus
“This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveMadeSpiritualityI BelieveFeltSoundHellFiveFourTreeFlowerUnderstoodYears AgoGrassDiscussionFive YearsBelieve In GodHawaiiCheesy Author:Natalie Maines
“European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the Soviet Union in that those missiles could reach the Soviet Union, make it vulnerable within five to six minutes, that it could surgical strikes, strikes into the military infrastructure and that a strike into the military infrastructure could cause in fact World War III, an atomic world war and that this could also be used for first strike, for surgical search, first strike into the Soviet Union.” WorldFirstsWarFactsWould BeUsedFeltCausesFiveMinutesMilitaryDangerMovementSixUnionsStrikesVulnerableWar Of The WorldsSoilSovietWorld War IiWorld War ISoviet UnionInfrastructureMissilesDeployment Author:Petra Kelly
“I left Stone Sour in '97 because, by that time, we'd been together for about five years and I was kind of getting to the point where I wanted to do something different. I loved the music that we did and I loved the guys that I was with, but I was 24 and just felt like I needed to go and try something different so I didn't get stuck where I was, you know, just doing the same thing. And, coincidentally, that's when Slipknot came and asked me to join. I'd never done anything like Slipknot up until then, so I was like, "Okay, we'll try this and we'll see what happens." And it worked out.” KnowsTryingYearsKindDifferentDoneHappensWantedTogetherGuyLeftFeltFiveNeededStonesOkayStuckFive YearsSourStone Sour Author:Corey Taylor