“Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. We would hear Slim Harpo or Lightnin' Slim and gospel groups, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I was so far north, I didn't even know where Alabama was.” KnowsCountryNamesBoysFiveGroupsRocksBlindRadioStationsRock N RollAlabamaSlimRadio StationsHummingbirdsDixieUp North Author:Bob Dylan
“Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.” PeopleKnowsWayNeedsFeelsDifferentUseMightTogetherCertainThreeForceBitsFiveFourSingingPicksTechniqueSingersCombinationNo PointAlchemyInterchange Author:Bob Dylan
“All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot a five-minute version of. If you just extrapolate that through the whole movie, I have a very long version of every scene, usually because, if there's one funny joke, I'll shoot five because I don't know if the one I like is going to work. I'll get back-ups because my biggest fear is to be in previews, testing the movie, and a joke doesn't work, but I have no way to fix it because I have no other line.” IfsKnowsWayLongWholeThreeHoursLinesFiveCuttingMinutesSceneJokesShotsVersionsGet BackSecondsTestingGoing To WorkFive MinutesBiggest FearFunny JokesPreview Author:Judd Apatow
“I never met my theater fans. I'm out the stage door five minutes after the curtain goes up. So that's it. I don't even know who comes, but thank God they do come. I can't tell. I keep my head down. I don't meet them. The fans from "Harry Potter" are kids who stop me in the street. I love that. That's terrific. I was amazed how many do.” KnowsI CanKidsFiveDoorsFansStreetsMinutesStageMetsTheaterThank GodHarry PotterAmazedCurtainsFive MinutesTerrificPotters Author:Michael Gambon
“Sixty-five percent of Americans say they know nothing about either Muhammad or Islam.” KnowsFivePercentIslamSixtyMuhammad Author:Deepak Chopra
“I've got five or six amazing friends that I trust and love, I know exactly who I am and don't care about anything else.” KnowsCareFiveSixAnd LoveDon't CareWho I AmLove And TrustAmazing Friend Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“The key to good worldbuilding is leaving out most of what you create. You, as the author, had damn well better know the where all that dragon food comes from, but that doesn't mean that I, as a reader, want to read a five thousand word essay about you explaining it to me. I don't need to see the math, but I can tell by the details you provide whether or not you've thought these things through to their logical conclusions.” KnowsWantNeedsWellsMeanI CanFiveKeysReaderThousandLeavingDetailsMathConclusionDamnDragonsLogicalEssaysExplaining Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“When I first went on [Facebook], I found there were five or six Creed Bratton sites. It was all over the place. I had to compete with other people saying they were me. It was nuts, so this is nice that people know that if they're gonna send something to me, I'm gonna be with my weird little mind looking at what they have to say. And what they're seeing is actually me.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindFirstsLittlesFoundFiveNiceSeeingSixNutsCreedsSiteLittle Minds Author:Creed Bratton
“When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but you don't really know. There are too many possibilities. Part of the game is how many balls you can juggle. It is to me. When you are 12 you can juggle two. Maybe when you are 50 you can juggle five. That is an interesting concept to me: how much I can put in and still make it pull together?” KnowsStillsI CanTwoTogetherGamesInterestingFiveHavensPossibilityPhotographyConceptsBallsClue Author:Lee Friedlander
“It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.” KnowsMenHumansMaySaidLightEarthSimpleWalksFiveCenturyMountainIndiaMiles21st CenturySimple Man Author:Ram Dass
“"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.” KnowsSchoolThreeFiveMilesSnowBack In The Day Author:Oprah Winfrey
“I'm a - I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two... or five or something, and she's, uh... I don't know, I've never seen her - the pictures are precious, she just seems so, y'know... She lives clear across town, I don't have that kind of time, but, um... Well, I send money and stuff, it's not like I don't have a connection...” KnowsWellsKindTwoHumorLightSeemsFunnyFunStuffClearFiveConnectionsTownsGodmotherLight Of My Life Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife. And Five Drink Mike... dances with wildlife.” KnowsTwoHumorFunnyEnjoyOpinionFiveMagicSeriousDrinkDancingTricksBiographiesMikeWildlifeMagic Tricks Author:Mike Birbiglia
“Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.” ThinkingKnowsInspirationalYearsKnow HowFiveFive Years Author:Larry Ellison
“3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing their movie another five or six percent and they don't know really how to do it, they should care how to do it better by bringing other directors and collaborators into their lives to help teach and instruct how you really make a 3D movie because it's not just like putting a new lens on a camera and forgetting it. It takes a lot of very careful consideration. It will change your approach to where you put the cameras. So, 3D isn't for everybody.” PeopleKnowsNeedsShouldDoneHelpingEyeCareForgetTeachFiveDirectorsSixApproachPercentCamerasSakeCarefulConsiderationLensesCollaborators Author:Steven Spielberg
“When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say "that will help."” KnowsGivingHelpingBusinessFiveHospitals Author:Thomas Watson, Jr.
“I saw a close friend of mine the other day. . . . He said, "Stephen, why haven't you called me?" I said, "I can't call everyone I want. My new phone has no five on it." He said, "How long have you had it?" I said, "I don't know . . . my calendar has no sevens on it."” KnowsWantLongSaidI CanHumorFunnyFiveSawsHavensMinesPhonesCalendarsClose Friends Author:Steven Wright
“What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.” KnowsKidsSexDifferencesFiveFourWifeAnd LoveSex And Love Author:James Caan
“No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.” KnowsYearsDoeArtistTimeFiveHundredLifetimeSeventies Book:Francis Bacon Source: Francis Bacon
“Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?.” PeopleKnowsWholeFormYoungBreakKnow HowFiveRocksTwentiesBrilliantRuinsDo You KnowCensorshipRock N RollOld PeopleRebelliousTwenty Five Author:John Hughes
“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
“I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!” KnowsWantTwoProblemThreeFiveCoachesAccentsJerseyIsraeliNew JerseyDialectDialect Coach Author:Odeya Rush
“Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.” PeopleKnowsYearsMindHeartDifferentSometimesBeautifulThreeOpinionFivePoetSixNineInnocentThree TimesNine YearsAnother TimeBeautiful HeartDifferent OpinionsBeautiful Mind Author:Ai Weiwei
“Well first of all I was nine weeks pregnant at the time and no one knew it. So it was - it had a whole other meaning for me not just because I had to let the dress out, you know, every few days before the actual day. But, you know, because that was the, you know, more important than anything else that was going on in my life. But in terms of actually winning I think I had been nominated four or five times before then. And every one of my co-stars had won up until that point.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsWellsImportantWholeWinningStarsTermFiveFourWeekDressesNinePregnant Author:Debra Messing
“People can write jokes five minutes after a major world event happens, and have hundreds of thousands of people read them within 10 minutes. Whereas before you write a joke, you don't know if anybody is really touching on it or not, and you tell it onstage the next night. For joke writing it has changed things.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWritingHappensNightNextFiveMinutesEventsChangedMajorsJokesTouchingFive MinutesWorld Events Author:Nick Thune
“I've always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know. You go and you pitch and it may be exactly what they're looking for, or they may stop you after two sentences and say, "Oh, we've already done something just like that."” KnowsMayTwoDoneShowsFiveTvsSixSentencesFeaturesTv Shows Author:John Sayles
“Because, we assume, these days, you just get in a car, you turn the key, and woosh, you're up the road. Or even now, dare I say, you don't turn a key; you get in a car and you're up the road. And yet with this particular car, it was a five-step process to start it. So how do I let the reader know that?” KnowsTurnsProcessStepsFiveCarParticularKeysReaderAssumingDareThese Days Author:Jacqueline Winspear
“It's funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it's going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it's going to be a female breakthrough, and then I'm reminded that five years ago we didn't even know Barack Obama's name.” PeopleKnowsYearsAsksNamesFiveFemaleYears AgoBarackAsk MeFive YearsBreakthroughLatino Author:Gwen Ifill
“The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.” ThinkingKnowsWantMayHappensGirlBoysRolesFiveTreeCryAdultsEightGenderCleverNineInstanceUncertaintyClimbingGender RolesDescendingPrismsClimbing Trees Author:Gloria Steinem
“A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.” KnowsYearsGirlFiveFootballChineseFive YearsFive Year Olds Author:Frank Langella
“In person I don't have that many friends. I'm a pretty tight-knit guy with the people that I know. Offline, I have no more than four or five friends.” PeopleKnowsPersonsGuyFiveFourMany FriendsOfflineFive Friends Author:Tom Anderson
“You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingYearsBookSchoolFiveWrittenYears AgoTwentiesEducatedFive YearsTwenty FiveMisled Author:Edward Leedskalnin
“You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.” PeopleKnowsMenDoneFiveKnow MeSequels Author:Malcolm D. Lee
“Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about what goes on outside their shores. They are people who believe the world stretches from California to Boston and everything outside is the bit they have to bomb to keep the price of oil down. Only one in five Americans hold a passport and the only foreign stories that make their news are floods, famine, and wars, because it makes them feel good to be an American. Feeling good to be American is what they live for.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsBelieveWarStoriesFeelingsKidsSchoolBitsFiveMastersGoes OnNewsStrangerOilFeel GoodCaliforniaBombsShoreFloodBostonFaminePassportsCourteous Author:Brian Reade
“Better known as the Secret of the Golden Flower, this is a famous neidan text that the Western world came to know through Richard Wilhelm's 1929 translation. The Chinese text used by Wilhelm was edited by Zhanran Huizhen zi in 1921. Besides this, at least five more versions are available, all of which date to the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and are ascribed to Lu Dongbin, who revealed them through spirit writing.” KnowsWorldWritingUsedSpiritSecretKnownFiveFlowerLateWesternAvailableVersionsGoldenChineseTranslationsWestern WorldEditedDynasty Author:Monica Esposito
“Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.” PeopleKnowsResultsCitiesFiveYouthCollegeIndustryEntertainmentCracksLots Of MoneyBusinessmanUsageEntertainment IndustryInner City Author:Questlove
“I don't believe in making five-year plans. I don't want to say, "Yes, I want to have children in the next five years," because I don't know. I've always known that I'd like to be a mom, but I don't want to live by a schedule. If I [did], I wouldn't be living in the moment.” IfsKnowsWantYearsBelieveChildrenMomentsNextKnownFivePlansMomDon't BelieveFive YearsLive BySchedulesLive In The MomentFive Year Plans Author:Charlize Theron
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenTwoRealAgeWantedAmericaYoungMotherChallengesBehindsWatchesStruggleFiveMissingTelevisionTvsBalanceSceneSixTwentiesJournalistFive YearsConcertsYoung WomenTwenty FiveBehind The ScenesWatch MePageantViolinistReal MeMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson
“Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me?” KnowsShouldBelievePersonsSaidLyingCoursesFiveSubjectsPoetIdealsVersionsNovelistsLiarsRepublicTruthfulBelieve In MeAutobiographyPlatoTemptedExcluded Author:Margaret Atwood
“The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.” KnowsHumansHuman BeingsDealsFiveDesignArchitectCanon Author:Richard Neutra
“Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.” IfsKnowsNextSportsFiveSixShotsGolfSevenCracksNext Time Author:Alice Cooper
“As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.” IfsKnowsWantTryingI CanDifferentHouseMillionsFiveMinutesMirrorsBunchFive MinutesNew YorkersObsessing Author:Natasha Lyonne
“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.” IfsKnowsWantShouldFirstsImportantIdeasHomeRememberLanguageFiveFourLandMinutesFoolLettersShould HaveSentencesDamnI Want YouEnglish LanguageParagraphFood LoveImportant Words Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.” IfsThinkingKnowsMayDifferentUseFivePlayerJudgingMathematicalReviewsCriteriaEsotericQualitative Author:Ned Colletti
“Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.” PeopleKnowsThreeFiveTroubleFractionsDid You Know Author:Calvin Trillin
“If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.” IfsKnowsMadeStoriesAgeFiveFoolMythMade Up Stories Author:Suetonius
“I don't know if any of you feel this way, but it's like eventually, you see a woman come on screen and you go, "Oh, thank God!" You just sort of need a break from all this testosterone, which happened, I think, in one of my films, The Hurt Locker. I was in it for like five minutes, and people were like, "You were in that movie!" And I was like, "Well, kind of." And they were like, "No, you were!" 'Cause they needed a woman!” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsFeelsWellsKindFilmCausesHurtBreakFiveHappenedMinutesLike YouNeededScreensThank GodFive MinutesLockersTestosteroneHurt Locker Author:Evangeline Lilly
“It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.” PeopleKnowsYearsWellsSaidBookCharacterStoriesRememberReadingFiveHavensVersionsProducersDefinedFive YearsFascinatingWonderlandFive Year Olds Author:Johnny Depp
“I get a lot of butterflies at auditions because I get so scared. It's scary because you've never met the people before. You have to meet them, and you have to hurry up and get to know them in five seconds. And then, you have to spill your emotions out to these strangers. It's funny.” PeopleKnowsEmotionFiveMetsScaredScaryStrangerSecondsButterflyAuditionsSpills Author:Elle Fanning
“Netflix will know everything. Netflix will know when a person stops watching it. They have all of their algorithms and will know that this person watched five minutes of a show and then stopped. They can tell by the behavior and the time of day that they are going to come back to it, based on their history.” KnowsPersonsShowsFiveMinutesBehaviorFive MinutesAlgorithmsNetflixTime Of Day Author:Mitchell Hurwitz