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“Pressure is when you've got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and you've only got five dollars left.”

Left Five Four Feet Pressure Dollars Thirty Riding Bucks

“Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.”

Ifs Two Ideas Three Names Given President Records Five Four Share Ready Office Meetings Clubs Secretary Keepers

Book:From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

Source: From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.”

“People think I must have all these superstitions, but I don't. I use my batting gloves 'til they wear out. I broke four or five bats during the streak, and I didn't cry over any of them.”

People Thinking Use Five Four Cry Broke Superstitions Bats Gloves Streaks Batting

Author:Jimmy Rollins

“Why would I want four or five more inches? I use my speed.”

Want Use Five Four Speed Inches

Author:Martin St. Louis

“Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.”

Play Home Five Four Higher Limits Twenties Towns Glasses Beer Decent Cents Twenty Five Home Town

Book:O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature

Source: O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature

“Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.”

“...consumers do not buy one brand of soap, or coffee, or detergent. They have a repertory of four or five brands, and move from one to another. They almost never buy a brand which has not been admitted to their repertory during its first year on the market.”

Years Firsts Moving Five Four Coffee Brands Consumers Soap

Author:David Ogilvy

“I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.”

Way Want Years Long Water Hours Growing Up Five Four Growing Distance Teenage Long Distance Swimmer Teenage Years

Author:Scott Speedman

“We were little children, four or five years old, but they were all around the house and they made us look epic, like we were part of some story being told. My mom would have this woman come to our house and take photos of us. She did a photo book of us as well when I was one. I still have it.”

Years Wells Looks Children Littles Made Stills Book Stories House Five Four Mom My Mom Five Years Epic Five Year Olds

Author:Jeff Vespa

“I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!”

Way Believe Form Political I Believe Morning Five Four Get Up Breakfast Fascism Political Correctness Correctness Start The Day

Author:P. D. James

“The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music.”

Ifs Can Do Simple Five Four Movement Drama Tasks Importance Practicals Narrative Sequence Theoretical Procedures Involving Retarded Power Of Music

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

“I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.”

Years Five Four Months Chrysler

Author:Lee Iacocca

“The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.”

Important America Black Issues Environment Five Four Rights Waste Fundamentals Civil Rights Neighborhood Toxic Dump Toxic Waste

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“After a Canadian has been referred to a specialist, the waiting list for gynecological surgery is four to 12 weeks, cataract removal 12 to 18 weeks, tonsillectomy three to 36 weeks and neurosurgery five to 30 weeks.”

Has Beens Three Waiting Five Four Week Lists Surgery Specialists Removal Neurosurgery

Author:Walter E. Williams

“Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.”

Suffering Games Five Four Player Tough Soccer Injury Soccer Player

Author:Dave Barry

“I woke up one day and I was like, "I don't have anything to save for myself for the future." That's when I started archiving things. I take four or five things that are really key to each collection, and I restore them or, in some cases, remake parts of them, and archive them.”

Cases Five Four Keys One Day Collections Remakes Archives

Author:Jason Wu

“I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor.' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor.'”

Feels Kind Sometimes Lasts Film Actors Five Four Projects Yeah Ireland Trapped January

Author:Colm Meaney

“When I'm home, I practice four or five hours a day...I warm up for an hour before a gig.”

Home Hours Practice Five Four Warm Gigs

Author:Art Farmer

“I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Writing Firsts Play Steps Five Four Produce First Steps

Author:Jean Kerr

“My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get to them.”

Has Beens Three Five Four Months Seven Eight Desperate Three Months Dvds

Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura

“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.”

Ifs World Years Stills Real Lasts Five Four Contemporary Legacy Five Years Real World Sequels

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.”

Way Years Humans Mean Stills Stories Feelings Lasts Human Beings Watches Five Pieces Four Son Kings Laughter Silent Crowds Eras Five Years Melodrama American Movie Last Five Years

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.”

Ifs Years Decision Five Four Week Tvs Six Series Filmmaker Tv Series

Author:Marc Blucas

“I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.”

Men Want Ideas Sides Known Five Four Subjects Changed Truth Is Fairs Debate Fixed Aviation Both Sides

Author:H. L. Mencken

“When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.”

People Way Different Grows Careers Growing Up Five Four Lifetime These Days Different Peoples

Book:Miss Wyoming

Source: Miss Wyoming

“Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?”

Five Four Senses Five Senses

Book:The works of Thomas Adams: being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses

Source: The works of Thomas Adams: being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses

“I get the Playboy thing a lot. People assume I go out with bimbos. I couldn`t go out with bimbos if I tried! I scare them off! The women that like me are smart. So I go to the Playboy Mansion four or five times a year, but people think I go all the time.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Five Four Smart Assuming Like Me Scare Mansions Playboy

Author:Bill Maher

“I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.”

Thinking Trying Different Shows Problem Form Asks Five Four Minutes Starting Drawing Different Things Five Minutes Playing Music Starting Out

Author:Demetri Martin

“When you walk up five flights of stairs at four in the morning, there's definitely a hooker involved.”

Walks Morning Five Four Involved Flight Stairs

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs.”

Done Together Lasts Five Four Drug Seasons Snow Thirty Twelve Sixty Lightning Thunder Ninety Last Day

Author:Lewis Black

“I have probably four or five male friends who have a real strong masculine side but some degree of a feminine side, too. They're pretty rare, whereas I think women with a masculine side are much less rare.”

Thinking Real Strong Sides Five Four Degrees Males Feminine Masculine

Author:John Malkovich

“The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because we had real real in the room. You have real real in the cut every four or five shots, so you have this constant yardstick built into the footage by virtue of there being no real robot there. So it became the standard of photo reality that the VFX team had to match.”

People Real Reality Rooms Virtue Five Four Cutting Team Standards Shots Built Constant Digital Get Away Dozen Robots Domain Yardsticks

Author:Shawn Anthony Levy

“The first time you went to the gym, to be trained and worked out, there'd be about four or five wrestlers, they'd take you to heavy calisthenics and then they beat the tar out of you... after you got tired. If you came back the next day they'd do the same thing. After about four days of you surviving this punishment, then maybe they might show you how to wrestle. That was to teach respect.”

Ifs Firsts Shows Might Next Teach Five Four Beats First Time Tired Heavy Punishment Gym Next Day Surviving Wrestler Calisthenics

Author:George Steele

“My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!”

“Have you ever dated a Goth chick for four or five months until you realized she was just an Orthodox Jew? They have the same costumes.”

Five Four Months Dating Jew Orthodox Costumes Chicks Goth

Author:Dana Gould

“Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk with them and they tell me all types of old stories, and sometimes I might even pull my horn out in the middle of the block, and they're playing on beer bottles and different things, and we just do a little second line type thing, just us, four or five people, who are just having fun. That makes me day to be able to do that and go hang out with the people in the (Treme) neighborhood, and to do some shows around town, you know?”

“Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)”

Firsts Has Beens Used Morning Five Four Holy Mountain Crosses Cameras Sensitive Afternoon Plates Noon Matching Shutters Holy Cross

Book:An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum

Source: An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum

“The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of control. . . . Good writing . . . explodes in the reader's face. Whenever the writer writes, it's always three or four or five o'clock in the morning in her head.”

Should Writing Beautiful Faces Three Morning Five Four Alive Reader Clock Reckless Good Writing

Author:Joy Williams

“When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.”

Thinking Father Five Four Stores Farmers Afternoon Saturday Saturday Afternoon

Author:Dinah Shore

“Cookies are unbelievable. I have a problem, I eat like, four to five a day.”

Problem Five Four Unbelievable Cookies

Author:Ryan Cabrera

“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.”

“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.”

People Thinking Years Believe Made Spirituality I Believe Felt Sound Hell Five Four Tree Flower Understood Years Ago Grass Discussion Five Years Believe In God Hawaii Cheesy

Author:Natalie Maines

“There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves in terms of belief; and they make art. Four of them are about conformity, and in these, everything would go more smoothly if people just would shut up and do what they're told. But in art it doesn't work that way.”

People Ifs Way Art Law Belief Term Five Four Produce Conformity Shut Up Organize

Author:Jane Smiley

“Individuals in various countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia listen to the tapes of bin Laden. They gather in groups of four or five. They feel they want to do something to express their support for what they've heard. The idea that they were taking orders is a particularly Western idea.”

Want Feels Ideas Country Order Individual Support Five Four Heard Groups Western Various Tape Egypt Bin Laden Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis

Author:Robert Fisk

“The story we hear over and over again is: Boy in science class, very nice to the girl, says, "Please come to our party on Saturday night." She, of course, shows up. He hands her two, three, four, five drinks. She becomes so inebriated he says, "You can sleep it off in my room. It'll be safe." Or, "I'll walk you home." It's all premeditated with the intention of having sex with that woman without her consent when she's passed out. It's a huge issue.”

“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.”

Want Writing Years Book Young Silence Clear Five Four Dying Students Machines Majority Rhythm Artistic Five Years Publish Poke Young Writers Inside And Outside

Author:Junot Diaz

“So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure.”

Ifs Trying Said Wanted House Parent Five Four Figures Lessons Instruments Musical Piano Climbing Recalls Musical Instruments Piano Lesson Climbing Up

Author:Vienna Teng

“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

“My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?”

Knows Years Mean Names Bits Five Four Plans Dad Band Radical Glorious Five Years Communist Posture Moscow Siege Five Year Plans Sputnik Stalingrad

Author:Alexei Sayle

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