“Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'” ThinkingWellsKindChildrenGuyParentInterestLosesFiveBrotherPressureLoadEldest Author:Chris O'Dowd
“I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much reality television. They want character driven stuff along with real violence. Cage fighting is very popular with the kids right now. They see and know what one punch can do to someone's face. You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantGivingHumansRealCharacterRealityKidsFilmFacesFightingStuffInterestCan DoFiveViolenceConditionsTelevisionRight NowHundredDrivenHuman ConditionCagesVery PopularReality Television Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I looked at my family and I said, "I've got a spouse. I've got three kids. There's no way I'm ever buying a music subscription service for the five of us. It's just not going to happen." So we wanted to do something really great for families... It wasn't easy. We had to convince the labels it was in their best interests, too.” WaySaidHappensKidsWantedThreeEasyInterestFiveMy FamilyLabelsBuyingConvinceReally GreatSpouseSubscription Author:Eddy Cue
“Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.” SaidFilmValuesNextOpportunitySoundInterestFiveMinutesEventsPaintingInvestmentRateSpeedSubstanceDistinctionBitesConsumptionWickednessFive MinutesRelentlessInstagramTextureTweetDeliveryInterest RateClipWarholSound BitesSporting EventsTinderTardiness Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“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.” IfsMightInterestHoursFiveSmokeLabourFifteenEnthusiasticCigarIntervals Author:Mark Twain
“I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.” StillsRememberDesireInterestAttentionFiveConvictionSalesmanship Author:Annette Bening
“The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.” IfsMenInterestLosesPoorFiveSecuritySixVillageRootedSmallestPoor Man Author:Desiderius Erasmus
“I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.” DoneWholeHomeAgeSchoolReadingInterestDealsCasesFiveHigh SchoolDecidedWhole LifeVillageOverwhelmingClassmatesGreenwichGreenwich VillageWarsaw Author:Tom Robbins
“Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.” WellsSelfFactsPassionEvilInterestImaginationFivePiecesHappenedMinutesTearsShameCharityGenuineGenerosityFive MinutesSelf InterestMaliceShort LifeFlingKernelOpportunism Author:Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
“It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.” YearsInterestFiveMinutesSellsInvestmentRateConvinceFive MinutesInterest RatePreferred Stock Author:Warren Buffett
“If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?” PoliticalInterestPowerDemocracyFivePolicyPoliticianExerciseAccountabilityInterest Groups Author:Tony Benn