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“A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.”

Ifs Light Eye Night Turns Choices Five Advice Hundred Prison Shining Cells Turn Off Bulbs Mattresses Sleepless Nights Bunk Words Of Advice

Author:William Powell

“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.”

“I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Three Natural Support Five Four Planets Huge Standards Resources Natural Resources Standards Of Living High Standards

Author:Jane Goodall

“Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Ideas Five Minutes Students Good Ideas Five Minutes

Author:Judith Weir

“If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it.”

Ifs Giving America Five Minutes Shelves Five Minutes Bucks North America Sony

Author:Jack Tretton

“If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.”

People Ifs Way Years Persons Turns Three Hours Millions Five Ten Hundred Lifetime Saved Extras Seconds Boots Macs

Author:Steve Jobs

“I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.”

Ifs Way Said Ideas Sometimes Would Be Running Three Next Wish My Own Ability Numbers Talking Five Week Dying Fine Months Limits Riches Block Dry Embarrassment Number Three

Author:Woody Allen

“Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.”

People Ifs Mind Wells Whole Use Given Five Creation Approach Logic Medicine Incredibles Wit Alternatives Holistic Alternative Medicine

Author:Stephen Fry

“In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.”

Ifs Years Today Five Intellectual Hundred Tradition Twenties Western Conservative Dialogue Alternatives Liberalism Critique Twenty Five

Author:Camille Paglia

“I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.”

“I once heard that women dress for women -- not for men -- and I think that has some truth to it. Men, what do they know? They don't know if you gain or lose five pounds. They're oblivious to those kinds of things. A lot of men will say "I like you just as you are." And you're like "But I'm bloated!" If they're attracted to you, they're attracted to you.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Kind Loses Five Heard Like You Gains Dresses Pounds Oblivious I Like You

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.”

Ifs Years Littles Said Stills War Done Stories Five Four Wife Type Couple One Day Pages Humorous Army My Wife Finished Five Years If I Could Short Story Operators

Author:Carl Reiner

“Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then of course they'll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Giving Years Dies Courses Five Thousand Behavior Hundred Deny Organs Tobacco Liver Poisoning Bad Behavior

Author:Larry Hagman

“If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.”

Ifs Lost Love Is Five Blind Senses Five Senses Love Is Blind

Book:Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

Source: Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

“Whatever you can handle, it's up to you. Pick something where you are going to do it to failure--in other words, where you can hardly do it. That's the key. So many people will just take five pound weights and do something 10 times. What are they getting out of it? Nothing! Say you are going to build up your bank account. If you put in a penny a day, it's going take a long while. It's the same with exercise--the more you put into it the more you take out.”

People Ifs Long Five Keys Exercise Picks Weight Accounts Handle Pounds Where You Are Up To You Pennies Bank Accounts Where You Are Going

Author:Jack LaLanne

“I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.”

People Ifs Want Years Order Five Journey Car Five Years Tall Fewer I Want You Transport Hold Me

Author:John Prescott

“Today there really aren't that many Fundamentalists left; I don't know if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there aren't that many Fundamentalists left in America. ... Now the word "fundamentalist" actually comes from a document in the 1920s called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith . And it is a very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity, and when I say there are very few fundamentalists, I mean in the sense that they are all actually called fundamentalist churches, and those would be quite small. There are no large ones.”

Ifs Knows Mean Would Be Today America Left Church Views Christianity Five Fundamentals Minorities Documents Fundamentalist

Author:Rick Warren

“Don't let your present problems defeat you. The Chinese have a saying that if you live with a disaster for three years it will turn into a blessing. Look back in your own life at what appeared to be a devastating situation five or ten years ago. Many of those situations were the turning point that caused a number of great things to happen in your future. Regardless of what happens today, realize it is the beginning of something good.”

“You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.”

Ifs Hands Running Able Spirit Energy Left Five Regret Genius Bases Rage Miles Dawn Thirty Intuitive Beef Unfinished Present Time Left Hand Saturated Organic Food Unfinished Business

Author:Caroline Myss

“If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city.”

Ifs Way Persons Made Would Be Effort Cities Five Car Building Size Driven Wheels Friendly Software Users Engineers Steers Menus Pedals Vendors Civil Engineer Dashboards Specs User Friendly

Author:Erik Naggum

“They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.”

Ifs Long Real Lasts Spirit Fighting Five Fate Plans Minutes Military Battle Five Minutes

Author:Paolo Bacigalupi

“People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?”

People Ifs Thinking Way Needs Doe Shows Actors Stars Five Four Cost Normal Eating Hundred Dollars Dinner Restaurants Expensive Fifty Hotel Relative Tickets Seventies Broadway Spectators

Author:Ferran Adria

“Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!”

Ifs Two Play Fighting Games Millions Five Wind Tennis Bucks Jimmy Muhammad Exhibitions

Author:Johnny Bench

“The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.”

Ifs Men Two Different Asks Mistake Talking Five He Man Logic Seven Philosopher Plus Ninety

Author:Thomas Friedman

“I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.”

Ifs Might Interest Hours Five Smoke Labour Fifteen Enthusiastic Cigar Intervals

Author:Mark Twain

“Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.”

Ifs Dream Morning Five Minutes Deserve Intention Your Dreams Centre Five Minutes

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.”

Ifs Way Trying Mean Two Hands Hours Lines Five Four Sea Arms Six Rivers Weight Fishes Nine Boat Lakes Fishing Pounds Length Casting

Author:Ted Trueblood

“If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.”

Ifs Should Years Stills Joy Five Willing Planets Destruction Billions Astronomy Witness Our Planet Unprecedented Gloria History Of Life

Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“I started a modeling agency and I had it for about five and a half years and it was the same time I was actually working with the WWE and doing SmackDown. It was really the same principles; because me growing up I didn't have the support, I wasn't told, yes you can do that; you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it.”

Ifs Want Years Mind Can Do Half Principles Support Growing Up Five Growing Agency Wwe Modeling Half A Year Yes You Can

Author:Amy Weber

“But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever.”

Ifs Shows Happens Moving Results Five Four Months Showtime

Author:Will Arnett

“If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.”

Ifs Years Two Guy Careers Five Mets Baseball Five Years Two Guys

Author:Mickey Mantle

“If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.”

Ifs Knows Feels Guy Winning Know How Five Player Basketball Titles Basketball Player

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Some people are saying that the reason Michael Phelps isn't doing so well is because he let himself get too out of shape. I just have to say that I have been watching the Olympics, and if that guy is out of shape, I have been dead for five years.”

People Ifs Years Wells Has Beens Reason Funny Guy Five Shapes Five Years Olympics That Guy London Olympics

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Imagine if you've got the diva of all divas. If we've got to be somewhere at five or six o'clock, I tell her its time to go at noon so she gets those five hours to do what she needs to do. But were both kids at heart. She is the funniest person ever and she has a great sense of humor. We connect at a spiritual level.”

Ifs Needs Heart Persons Kids Funny Spiritual Hours Levels Five Imagine Six Clock Sense Of Humor Noon Kid At Heart

Author:Nick Cannon

“I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number. ... I've been in it for 17 years but I've missed three years because of injury. If you do the math, I've still got three years left. You got that?”

Ifs Years Stills Three Left Numbers Five Four Basketball Math League Injury Three Years

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.”

Ifs Want Stills Play Home Kids Wanted Sides Five Football Clubs Sunday Coming Home Mates

Author:Kevin Kilbane

“The success factor is a combination of intuition and honestly, it's mostly only intuition. A design business is inherently dependent upon the intuition of its chief designer. Luckily I have a track record that if you show me five pairs of shoes I will almost always pick the one pair that will sell the best. It's just a gift I have for mass taste - a link with what people want in a certain moment in time.”

“If youve got five cameras, youre making sure that youre in the right position for each one of the cameras.”

Ifs Five Position Cameras

Author:Jacinda Barrett

“If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.”

“I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus, I'll look out the window and say, 'OK, there's the Tower of London, there's Buckingham Palace, there's Big Ben,' and if it all takes about five minutes, perfect. I've seen all of it and I can go home.”

People Ifs Looks I Can Country Home Bigs Perfect Five Minutes Car Window London Bus Towers Five Minutes Palaces Buckingham Palace

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.”

Ifs Men World Age United Five Genius Six X Men

Author:Jonathan Swift

“I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.”

People Ifs Years Moments Happens Enjoy Worry Five Concern Five Years Live In The Moment Thighs Ascent

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.”

Ifs Men Firsts Humans Opinion Five Genius Conversation Hundred First Time Window League Naples

Author:Madame de Stael

“if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.”

Ifs Writing Years Humans Heart Might Humanity Fall Force Perfect Consciousness Five Quiet Years Ago Insight Observation Five Years Mature Human Heart Better Than You Sentimentality

Author:Sarah Orne Jewett

“Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.”

Ifs Love Five Investment Cents Making Love

Author:Arnold Bennett

“If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.”

Ifs Writing Wells I Can Done Play Three Hours My Own Five One Day Cost Mood Well Being Lunch Going Out Worth It Days Off Not Worth It

Author:Danielle Steel

“If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.”

Ifs Men Work Five Alive Fool Fifty

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held this false belief fifty years ago, the majority agreed with it five years ago, and practically everyone clings to it today. Clearly, this myth will also be the screaming rage in the future. Hang on to this myth, and you are destined to miss great opportunities for the rest of your life.”

People Ifs World Years Today Opportunity Belief Pleasure Five Missing This World Years Ago Majority Myth Rage Five Years Fifty Destined Rest Of Your Life Great Opportunity

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.”

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