“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.” KnowsYearsMadeStillsPlaySchoolNightLinesFiveDirectorsPerformancesDisasterOpeningEmbarrassedJuniorsJunior YearOpening Night Author:Katie Leclerc
“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.” KnowsYearsMadeHappensRunningFiveStageFrontsHappeningsRiversDryFive YearsSweatPouringMicrophones Author:Nickolas Ashford
“[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.” YearsHumansMeanMadeScienceFiveFoodGoes OnIndustryCircumstancesIncreaseTwentiesFasterFive YearsTwenty FiveRatiosSubsistence Author:Thomas Malthus
“My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.” WritingYearsFirstsMadeBookThreeFiveLuckyHusbandFive YearsThree YearsHousewife Author:Judith Perelman Rossner
“Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensMadeWholeNextLostMillionsFiveDesignSittingTownsDetailsScreensMake SenseCuteHotelHomelessDowntownSweatingSwept Away Author:Cameron Sinclair
“I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.” IfsYearsMadeSaidPlayAbleFiveHavensDoctorsTennisFive YearsThey SaidVery HappySingles Author:Walter Cronkite
“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.” MenYearsMindHas BeensMadePoliticalLife IsGivenOpinionPrinciplesFiveSubjectsCircumstancesYears AgoTwentiesFive YearsTwenty FiveOpportunistPolitical Opinions Author:A. P. Herbert
“I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.” MenYearsMadeCoursesSidesFireFiveDoorsLifetimeFive YearsAcquireAbandonedWardrobeExitRooftopsFire EscapesEscargot Author:Frank Abagnale
“In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.” KnowsMenWorldMayMadeEarthFacesGivenSportsSinFiveSeaSkyFairsBlindNeighborWitPhrasesFollyWoeDwellingDecreeDwelling Place Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection