“After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.” YearsKindSelfPlayLastsChallengesGoneRecordsFiveSelf EsteemInstrumentsEsteemFive YearsDisappointedChallenging Myself Author:Cat Power
“When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.” SchoolGoneFiveSingingDancingTouringSinging And Dancing Author:Michael Jackson
“No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.” MenI CanThreePracticeGoneFiveFourRiversLonelyFishesVariousIslandsDesperateRetreatLonesome Author:Liam Neeson
“When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.” KnowsFeelsWritingLongBookEnoughStoriesUsedGoneFivePaperBoxesPoundsChocolateCandyDetectivesDetective StoriesBox Of Chocolates Author:Carolyn Wells
“Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.” ThinkingYearsGoneFiveMinutesInstitutionsIndispensableOxygenFive Minutes Author:Warren Buffett
“Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.” IfsGivingYearsTwoTodayArtistForgetMillionsGoneFiveFourCoupleSellsReleaseFive YearsCopiesForget You Author:George Jones
“Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.” ThinkingWritingI CanHardDonePastLife IsThreeBitsCan DoGoneFiveMaterialsAnxietyJokesPressureCome UpRelaxScreenplaysI Can Do ItParalyzed Author:Steve Martin
“I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. Indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing you think about. And the oxygen has been sucked out of the credit markets.” ThinkingYearsMeanHas BeensWholeEconomyGoneFiveMinutesInstitutionsCreditIndispensableOxygenFive MinutesCompetenceHalt Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.” ChildrenTodayTurnsCultureParentLinesMy OwnRoomsTalkingClassPovertyGoneFiveTeacherViolenceGenerationsChildhoodDrugConcernSuicideMadAddAddictionMotherhoodAidsFeaturesUsaPregnancyTeenageCleaningGangHomelessnessHomeworkAnorexiaDrug AddictionDrug AddictAdventGumChewingBulimiaSnapshotsHomicideParents And TeachersChewing GumTeenage PregnancyGang ViolenceAnorexia And Bulimia Author:Mary Blakely
“I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...” WantYearsKindDifferentLeftHoursPartyHalfGoneFiveCuttingRepublicanTenTaxesBiggerBudgetsFive YearsChicagoSenateDifferent KindsBalancedDetroitLeft AloneTax CutsHalf HoursBaltimoreFergusonBalanced BudgetBigger Better Author:Rand Paul
“The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.” StoriesAmericaGoneFiveNewsPressesCriticalJournalismJournalistCorporationsGiantsCoveringCoverageInvestigative JournalismNews Coverage Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“The soul is that part of us that is immortal. It existed before the personality was born and it will exist after the personality is gone. The personality is an energy tool of the soul that is temporary. Through it we learn in this domain of the five senses. We learn through what we create and the impact that it has on us. This process is becoming conscious.” SoulEnergyProcessBornGoneFivePersonalityBecomingConsciousToolsImpactSensesImmortalTemporaryDomainFive Senses Author:Gary Zukav
“When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.” KnowsYearsMeanTwoGamesSportsGoneFiveThousandTenSevenZeroDo You KnowBatsReally Mean Author:Reggie Jackson
“In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.” LooksLastsFacesDealsGoneFiveMinutesDogExpressionTerribleDisguiseFive MinutesMy DogRepose Author:Judy Holliday
“I am so happy, each and every day that I come to set. Some days, I'll be there 12 hours, and it feels like five minutes have gone by.” FeelsHoursGoneFiveMinutesFive Minutes Author:Fiona Gubelmann
“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