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“Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'”

World Should Firsts Country Today Winning Bits Animal Race Five Four Feet Lucky Equal Thirds Horse Shoes Ran Ducks Fifth Horseshoes

Author:Eddie Izzard

“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)

“Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.”

People Mean Five Elements Blue Ridiculous Aliens Range Fifth Fifth Element

Author:Mika

“The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.”

“There are five kinds of incendiary attack: The first is called setting fire to personnel; the second, to stores; the third, to transport vehicles and equipment; the fourth, to munitions; the fifth, to supply installations...In all cases an army must understand the changes induced by the five kinds of incendiary attack, and make use of logistical calculations to address them.”

Firsts Kind Use Cases Fire Five Thirds Army Stores Setting Settings Addresses Vehicle Fourth Equipment Fifth Calculations Transport Personnel Installation

Author:Sun Tzu

“We look at all the polls, not just the Gallup Poll. So, it's kind of like if you have, you know, four out of five doctors agree that reducing cholesterol reduces your risk of a heart attack, Gallup is like the fifth doctor.”

Ifs Knows Looks Heart Kind Five Four Risk Doctors Agree Fifth Polls Reducing Heart Attack Cholesterol

Author:Nate Silver

“Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.”

Years Mean Ideas Feelings Age Reading Five Teaching Crime Direct Thirds Constitution Five Years Privacy Subtle Fourth Gross Fifth Invasion Violation Thorough Personhood Invasion Of Privacy

Author:Walter Tevis

“Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.”

Knows Age Turns Girl Five Twenties Cake Shelves Desirable Fifth Twenty Five Stale

Book:The Gargoyle

Source: The Gargoyle

“The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up of these five elements, which are manifested in different colors. In their true quality, space is blue light, water is white, earth is yellow, fire is red, and air is green.”

Source: Boundless Healing: Medittion Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body

“...in every religion the priest insists on five things - First: There is a God. Second: He has made known his will. Third: He has selected me to explain this message. Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.”

Firsts Made Known Five Failing Messages Thirds Collections Priests Fourth Fifth Selected

Book:Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works

Source: Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works

“I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and the old man Abreu. When we were in Venezuela, I had the chance to go to his building. He had, like, five or six orchestras playing of kids from the hood playing, like, Mahler's third symphony and Shostakovich fifth and Beethoven. Man, it's unbelievable. I mean, they could play.”

Men Mean Doe Play Kids Chance Five Building Six Thirds Old Man Unbelievable Orchestra Fifth Symphony Classical Music Hood Venezuela Mahler Shostakovich

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.”

World Firsts Able Five Growing Dying This World Thirds Sick Deny Accomplish Cease Fourth Fifth Growing Old Dissolution Being Sick

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the time factor, and then there's the factor which I call the cerebral factor of the reader, the way the reader adjusts to all the other dimensions, which is the fifth dimension.”

Thinking Way Two Three Term Novel Five Reader Depth Factors Height Dimensions Fifth Cerebral Width

Author:Richard Grossman

“The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.”

Years Said Lasts Past Death Five Week Stones Twenties Five Years Cheating Rolling Fifth Twenty Five Rolling Stones Keith Reunited Fifth Anniversary

Author:Norm MacDonald

“When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.”

“There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.”

Girl Five Four Cat Drawing Fifth Pretty Girl

Author:Robert A. Heinlein