“When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing because it is one of the toughest things to do in sports.” YearsSportsRecordsFiveEuropeThings To DoFive YearsTiedPointing Author:Pete Sampras
“The shifts happen on a regular basis, but it's like a cycle. So things come in and out of vogue and then five years later they're back in vogue. Or there seems to be a theory that this is the way the industry will go and everybody goes over that way and then something happens to the country and you're back again at the place you were.” WayYearsCountrySeemsHappensFiveTheoryIndustryBasesThings HappenFive YearsCyclesBack AgainVogue Author:Eric Fellner
“I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.” WorldYearsDoneShowsSeemsBitsImaginationFiveCommitmentFive Years Author:John Noble
“The international reach of Fringe still catches me by surprise a bit, at times. Also, I was given the gift of a character that is every actor's dream. So, you combine those two factors and it's been an incredibly memorable five years.” YearsStillsTwoCharacterDreamActorsGivenBitsFiveSurpriseInternationalFactorsMemorableFive YearsFringeCatch Me Author:John Noble
“I have a very special love for all of those actors [in Fringe] and I'll miss them.Over the five years, we were given the chance to develop some pretty close bonds, both with our characters and personally, and we did.” YearsCharacterActorsGivenChanceFiveSpecialMissingFive YearsFringeSpecial Love Author:John Noble
“So however much time has passed since Legacy came out would also have transpired in the real world. So it will still be contemporary. So let's say if the Tron sequel comes out later, then four or five years have passed since the last movie.” IfsWorldYearsStillsRealLastsFiveFourContemporaryLegacyFive YearsReal WorldSequels Author:Joseph Kosinski
“I chose the American ones, more or less the last five years of the silent era, because those are the ones that aged the best in the way they tell the story. One, it's about human beings with context. It's a very classical story with feelings, with laughter, melodrama and it really works, the good ones - Murnau's American movies, John Ford's Four Sons, King Vidor's The Crowd, or the (Josef) von Sternberg movies. You can watch it now and it still works. I mean they are really, really good pieces so this is where I tried to work.” WayYearsHumansMeanStillsStoriesFeelingsLastsHuman BeingsWatchesFivePiecesFourSonKingsLaughterSilentCrowdsErasFive YearsMelodramaAmerican MovieLast Five Years Author:Michel Hazanavicius
“In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.” ShouldYearsKindDifferentAgeBreakFiveCommunicationTraditionEverydayPatternsFive YearsRapidsPrecedent Author:Yoko Ono
“If you look at Hollywood today, compared to five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago or 30 years ago, the change from moment to moment has always been extraordinary. It never stops moving.” IfsYearsLooksMomentsTodayMovingFiveYears AgoHollywoodExtraordinaryFive Years Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“Dynamic, rapidly expanding European monarchy seeks a can-do visionary to head up its South American divisions.Our ideal candidate will have at least five years' experience in New World colonization and be willing to accept shift work. Fluency in Spanish an asset.Some travel involved” WorldYearsCan DoAcceptingFiveWillingInvolvedIdealsSouthCandidatesFive YearsDivisionAssetsNew WorldExpandingMonarchyVisionariesColonizationHeads UpFluency Author:Christopher Columbus
“I used to go to the supermarket dressed as Peter Pan when I was about five years old.” YearsUsedFiveFive YearsPeterSupermarketsFive Year Olds Author:Luke Treadaway
“Page and I get offered everything: women, little boys, cocaine, the lot, to just go back and do that again. I don't think it would be a good idea at all. [But] I reserve judgment to change my mind in five years' time.” ThinkingYearsMindLittlesIdeasWould BeBoysFiveJudgmentPagesFive YearsGood IdeasReservesCocaineLittle Boys Author:Robert Plant
“I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.” YearsI CanRealCountryHomeAmericaLawFiveHonorFive YearsYieldCitizenshipAccordMy FutureCountrymenResidenceAmerican Citizenship Author:Wilhelm Steinitz
“I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.” YearsPlayWantedFiveStageFive Years Author:Hugh Jackman
“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.” TryingYearsMadeEndsEnoughSchoolBusinessActingFiveDramaEightRestaurantsFive YearsGasStationsContractsSmall BusinessGas Stations Author:Hugh Jackman
“My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'” IfsYearsKindSaidI CanGoalCareersFivePlansOne DayYears AgoAgentsFive Years Author:Hugh Jackman
“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
“After I got divorced, I said to myself, I will never, ever get married again. It was in cement. I went through a really rough twenty-five years, but it happened again. I fell in love. I told her, Baby, I don't want a prenuptial agreement. This is it. Everyone told me I was nuts. Well, my new wife and I are married six years and we get along great. You can make anything work if you're both givers.” IfsWantYearsWellsSaidFiveWifeHappenedBabySixMarriedTwentiesFive YearsAgreementRoughNutsDivorcedGiverTwenty FiveCement Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“Having a baby, it's like a five year commitment.” YearsFiveBabyCommitmentFive YearsHaving A Baby Author:Chelsea Handler
“I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.” WayYearsI CanLife IsFivePlansLoversListsFive YearsFive Year Plans Author:Jenna Fischer
“To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.” YearsNamesChurchFiveNormalMiracleCatholicSaintFive YearsProceduresCatholic Church Author:Chris Matthews
“I have to entertain myself. An easy way to explain it is I worked in NY since I was five-years-old doing modeling and commercials, and that's a completely different world than in California where I think there's different dreams and aspirations of maybe being a so-called 'star' and so forth. Here you do your work, whether it's theater or commercials.” ThinkingWorldWayYearsDifferentDreamStarsEasyFiveTheaterCaliforniaAspirationFive YearsModelingDifferent WorldsEasy WayFive Year OldsDreams And Aspirations Author:Linda Blair
“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.” YearsSaidLastsPastDeathFiveWeekStonesTwentiesFive YearsCheatingRollingFifthTwenty FiveRolling StonesKeithReunitedFifth Anniversary Author:Norm MacDonald
“I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.” YearsTwoMovingGuyCoursesHalfFiveNew YorkWestFive YearsComparisonCoastWest Coast Author:Ben Webster
“The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.” KnowsYearsSelfBigsCan DoKnow HowFiveOffersOpeningErasFive YearsPortraitsFive Year OldsSelf PortraitSelf Portrait Photography Author:Lucas Samaras
“My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an amazing poet, who was raised by this woman, and was dating a guy who broke up with her for the fourth time in three weeks. And one day, she came to his house, got a gun, and blew her brains out all over his headboard. I just went through a divorce, five years in court and cost me $2 million dollars. If anyone, by law, should be forced to take antidepressants it's me... But instead, I choose to be an antidepressant. And you can take me with alcohol.” IfsShouldYearsHomeLawGuyThreeHouseBrainMillionsFiveWeekPoetMomOne DayCostGunShotsDatingCourtDollarsPrisonRaisedMy MomDivorceAlcoholBrokeFive YearsTake MeMy SisterFourthMillion DollarsManicBroke UpSchizophrenicDepressiveAntidepressants Author:Christopher Titus
“I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.” IfsYearsProblemHouseSpeakSituationGrowing UpFiveGrowingDogRedLibraryExcuseFive YearsNo ProblemExcuse MePineapplesSpeaks French Author:Eugene Mirman
“My whole family's gonna be set for life and I'm not stopping rappin until that happens. I already know I got a five year plan. I'm 26 now and I'm gonna bow out on my 31st birthday. Peace, later, holla, I'm gone.” KnowsYearsWholeHappensGoneFivePlansFive YearsBowsStoppingWhole FamilyFive Year Plans Author:Jayceon Terrell Taylor
“During the debate over NAFTA President Clinton said, 'I believe that NAFTA will create a million jobs in the first five years of its impact.' WRONG. According to the Economic Policy Institute, NAFTA has led to the loss of more than 680,000 U.S. jobs. I voted against NAFTA and other bad trade agreements and am fighting to stop the TPP.” YearsFirstsBelieveSaidJobsFightingI BelievePresidentLossMillionsFiveEconomicPolicyTradeImpactClintonDebateFive YearsAgreementInstituteEconomic PolicyPresident ClintonTrade AgreementsNafta Author:Bernie Sanders
“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
“Everything has a trend to it; I don't care if it's appliances or engines. I always ask: What has a company done in the past five years that somebody's noticed?” IfsYearsDoneCarePastAsksCompanyFiveDon't CareI Don't CareFive YearsTrendsEnginesAppliances Author:Millard Drexler
“When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?” PeopleKnowsYearsLittlesWantedYoungUsedGirlWaitingChurchFivePerformingFive YearsCigaretteFive Year OldsYoung Ladies Author:Etta James
“Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.” YearsI CanUsedFiveStageSittingFive YearsSitting Down Author:Etta James
“We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.” KnowsYearsFiveValuableReputationBrandsFive YearsAssetsSeventies Author:Michael Eisner
“I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.” YearsFiveFive YearsPerformersFive Year Olds Author:Lady Gaga
“It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years.” WayYearsNextEffortFiveImportanceConvictionThese DaysFive YearsVillageHighwaysFiber Author:Narendra Modi
“Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.” YearsFiveDiedGirlfriendFive YearsGrandmotherGoing OutMy GrandmotherMy GirlfriendDumpedMother Died Author:Mike Gordon
“Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.” YearsMadeSchoolThreeLeftCareersFivePursueMade ItFive YearsJuniorsSemesterJunior Year Author:Ruben Studdard
“Yeah it's completely different, it's matured tenfold. We wrote the first album over five years as teenagers but now we've got the opportunity to do InMe full-time. We've got closer together, we've got a better connection.” YearsFirstsDifferentTogetherOpportunityFiveConnectionsYeahAlbumsTeenagerFive YearsMatured Author:Dave McPherson
“I have been trying to heal my body from surgeries over the last five years - from my broken leg, tonsillectomy, wisdom teeth, eagle syndrome and hip. Needless to say, it's been a very painful process.” TryingYearsHas BeensBodyLastsProcessFiveBrokenPainfulLegsHealTeethHipsFive YearsSurgeryEaglesSyndromesLast Five YearsBroken Leg Author:John Michael Montgomery
“My dad plays the fiddle. He stopped playing for years. He was playing when I was a baby, and then he stopped for about five years, or ten years, he says. Then all of a sudden he started playing again, and we all got interested. We started having people like Ciarán Tourish coming up to the house, and Dinny McLaughlin, who taught Ciarán, and who taught myself as well. And it just grew from that” PeopleYearsWellsPlayHouseFiveTaughtBabyGrewDadTenMy DadFive YearsFiddle Author:Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh
“Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?” ThinkingYearsFirstsLittlesTogetherLastsBlackFiveWindMonthsYeahAlbumsStudiosEightFive YearsSundayTouringTime To Think Author:B-Real
“When I put Fight together, I wanted to maintain the momentum. I didn't want to kinda disappear for five years and then come back. I was just so ready to break away from where I was before and just start the journey. To just fulfill and realize these dreams that I carry in my head.” WantYearsDreamWantedTogetherFightingRealizingBreakFiveJourneyReadyDisappearFive YearsMomentum Author:Rob Halford
“It was in Shizuoka, where my home was. I first attended this school when I was five years old. I also attended a regular elementary school, and I was taking piano lessons with a local teacher. I began to study composition at the Yamaha school. And I continued to study there until the age of 15.” YearsFirstsHomeAgeSchoolStudyFiveTeacherLessonsLocalsPianoFive YearsCompositionFive Year OldsElementary SchoolPiano LessonYamaha Author:Hiromi
“The terrorists that attacked us in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. And I bet you we wish we would have had access to five years of his records so we could see who he was working with...” YearsCountryWishBornRecordsFiveCitizensRaisedAccessTerroristFive YearsAmerican CitizensBorn And Raised Author:Marco Rubio
“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
“I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.” IfsYearsNextSpeakGivenChanceFiveTenYears AgoAlbumsFive Years Author:Zach Condon
“But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have internalized the new machine rhythm, the rush many of my young writers are in to publish. The majority don't want to sit on a book for four, five years. The majority don't want to listen to the silence inside and outside for their artistic imprimatur. The majority want to publish fast, publish now.” WantWritingYearsBookYoungSilenceClearFiveFourDyingStudentsMachinesMajorityRhythmArtisticFive YearsPublishPokeYoung WritersInside And Outside Author:Junot Diaz
“If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.” IfsYearsMeanI CanCountryPresidentFiveRightsEqualSingingFive YearsEqual Rights Author:Wyclef Jean
“I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."” YearsFirstsI CanFiveFive YearsStampsPostagePostage Stamps Author:Peter Webber