“I think of myself as still being about five. Maybe that's why my Twitter picture is of me at five. That's how I feel. I'm honored if I can inspire somebody else. I'm just still trying to figure it all out about myself.” IfsThinkingFeelsTryingStillsI CanFiveFiguresInspireHonored Author:Demi Moore
“When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.” WorldYearsLittlesStillsPleasureFiveTreeArmsMy FriendsAdultsLegsForestsFarmsScarMy Best FriendJungleHoodRobinsChunksGrandpaHaulLooking DownRobin HoodFloraFoliageUnsuspecting Author:Phillip Adams
“I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.” WritingYearsStillsBookJobsNextFiveWeekEarsFinishedFive YearsFogNext WeekDay Jobs Author:Ken Thompson
“I love what I do and feel really lucky to still love what I do - I want to get out of bed and go to work at least three out of five days a week! My fear is it ends up any less than three days. But design-wise, I've still got an appetite, a lot more I want to say with my work - the story is not nearly complete!” WantFeelsStillsEndsStoriesThreeFiveWiseWeekDesignLuckyBedAppetite Author:Matthew Williamson
“Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.” YearsArtStillsMomentsBornFiveAliveMagicMusic IsYears AgoTwentiesExcitedHungryFive YearsMotivatedTwenty Five Author:Lenny Kravitz
“I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.” YearsStillsPlayFiveWeekTenTwelve Author:Pat Benatar
“I have a mouse, but don't have a mouse driver for MINIX and have never felt the need to write one. Typing "rm x y z" is a lot faster than clicking five times and then having to convince the system that you really, truly, mean it and this is not a mistake and that you are consenting adult over 18 and that you completely understand the consequences and you still want to do it.” WantNeedsWritingMeanStillsFeltMistakeFiveAdultsConsequenceFasterConvinceDriversMiceTyping Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum
“Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingYearsWellsStillsI CanMomentsLastsSongTakenFiveNew WaysSongwriters Author:PJ Harvey
“What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.” StillsBigsAgeJobsDealsFiveNormalRetirementSixtyBig DealRetirement Age Author:Keith Richards
“To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.” StillsLastsMistakeStudyFiveFourEconomicStreetsMovementWallProveNineRecessionsCommentatorsOmenUnderstatementDownturn Author:Paul Samuelson
“And our experience in England was that. It was a delight. I had never even been to England and I got to spend five months there in a beautiful estate and just party with these gorgeous men and women and poke fun at their beloved genre, which they all loved. We teased it, but it's so gentle, that you're still swept away the whole time.” MenStillsWholeBeautifulFunPartyFiveMonthsMen And WomenEnglandDelightGenreGentleBelovedEstatesGorgeousPokeSwept Away Author:Jerusha Hess
“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.” YearsWellsLooksChildrenLittlesMadeStillsBookStoriesHouseFiveFourMomMy MomFive YearsEpicFive Year Olds Author:Jeff Vespa
“The medics generally see the worst of the worst. They see everything. They're working on their friends, and they're working on their enemy. The person that was just firing at them, trying to kill them, five minutes ago, if an Army medic stumbles upon him and he's still alive, he just goes to save his life.” IfsTryingPersonsStillsEnemyFiveAliveMinutesWorstArmyFive MinutesFiringStumble UponMedics Author:Brendan Fehr
“In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.” IfsYearsMadeStillsUsedRolesFiveNeededComputerMassTwentiesProductionsBoardsFive YearsBuyingMechanicAutomobileProgrammersTwenty FiveMass Production Author:Gerald Weinberg
“Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.” ThinkingWantYearsStillsHardBigsWorkFiveFive YearsThink Big Author:Chanel Iman
“I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.” PeopleNeedsYearsStillsMatterFallCultureHouseLanguageFiveColorThousandDiversityGood ThingsCaughtCelebrateChineseFlamesNeglectPotDividedThousand YearsSurvivedCaught UpMeltingGreat AmericanMelting PotCommonalityChinese CultureHouse DividedCelebrating Diversity Author:Richard Paul Evans
“The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.” PersonsStillsStatesUsedBitsTermUnitedBehindsUnited StatesFiveMinutesEnglandTwentiesLocalsIdiotOfficialsShopsCategoriesClothingsAcceptableFive MinutesLunaticTwenty FiveDeficiencyOutdatedImbecilesEuphemismDisadvantagedFauxFaux Pas Book:Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife Source: Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife
“The international reach of Fringe still catches me by surprise a bit, at times. Also, I was given the gift of a character that is every actor's dream. So, you combine those two factors and it's been an incredibly memorable five years.” YearsStillsTwoCharacterDreamActorsGivenBitsFiveSurpriseInternationalFactorsMemorableFive YearsFringeCatch Me Author:John Noble
“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.” IfsWorldYearsStillsRealLastsFiveFourContemporaryLegacyFive YearsReal WorldSequels 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.” WayYearsHumansMeanStillsStoriesFeelingsLastsHuman BeingsWatchesFivePiecesFourSonKingsLaughterSilentCrowdsErasFive YearsMelodramaAmerican MovieLast Five Years Author:Michel Hazanavicius
“When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.” WayDoeStillsFiveAdvantageTablesBest WayExesNinetyReferringLife Time Author:Ringo Starr
“I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When I reached the psychiatrist, I said, Give me a gun, I'll wipe out the whole German Army in five minutes. He said, You're crazy! I said, Write it down!” GivingWritingSaidStillsWarWholeLastsSufferingFiveCrazyMinutesGunGive MeArmyShockWoundedFive MinutesWipePsychiatrist Author:Jackie Mason
“I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.” StillsUsedFiveUsed To BeComedianJust Do It Author:Adam Sandler
“We do want the freedom to move scenes from episode to episode to episode. And we do want the freedom to move writing from episode to episode to episode, because as it starts to come in and as you start to look at it as a five-hour movie just like you would in a two-hour movie, move a scene from the first 30 minutes to maybe 50 minutes in. In a streaming series, you would now be in a different episode. It's so complicated, and we're so still using the rules that were built for episodic television that we're really trying to figure it out.” WantWritingTryingFirstsLooksStillsTwoDifferentMovingHoursFiveMinutesFiguresTelevisionLike YouSceneBuiltSeriesComplicatedEpisodesStreaming Author:Jill Soloway
“And I don't want you thinking that my girlfriend is a bad person. She is an amazing woman, the fact that I only have seven stories about her in eight years, says a lot. You know, don't get me wrong, five of them happened this year, but that's still way below the bar, you know what I am saying.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantYearsPersonsStillsFactsStoriesFiveHappenedSevenEightBarsGirlfriendMy GirlfriendAmazing Woman Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing.” IfsKnowsStillsIdeasArtistHellFiveHeardHonestyAlbumsWho I AmNo IdeaKnow MeBack Roads Author:Rodney Atkins
“You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising for the audience coming to see the movie.” KnowsGivingKindStillsI CanEnoughUseFilmCertainWatchesAudienceFiveMaterialsHundredMarketingSurprising Author:Christopher McQuarrie
“[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket - if you've got a bucket with six holes shot through it, [and] you plug up five, you've still got a leaky bucket.” IfsStillsWholeDealsFiveViolenceSixGunShotsHolesFactorsContributingBucketsPlugsGun Violence Author:Joycelyn Elders
“The building housing America's military brass is a five-sided pentagon, but somehow, the people in it still manage to make it the squarest place on earth. The latest evidence? A current military document that lists homosexuality as a mental disorder in the same league as mental retardation - noting, of course, the one difference: retarded people can still get into heaven.” PeopleStillsEarthAmericaCoursesHeavenDifferencesFiveMilitaryBuildingEvidenceCurrentsListsManageLeagueDisorderDocumentsHomosexualityHousingPentagonBrassRetardedMental DisorderMental Retardation Author:Jon Stewart