“So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.” PeopleMeanBigsTermFiveGrewGrew UpHip HopHipsCompareHopsFlashTribesDaddyFuriousHendrixBig Daddy Author:Michael Rapaport
“[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
“It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.” KnowsMeanStillsHardLastsFilmFiveMinutesApproachFive Minutes Author:Alex Prager
“There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.” WayMeanLongFacesSongWalksFiveHairClothesStonesPressesRollingConferencesConceitUnfoldingRolling StonesSinisterPress Conferences Author:Pete Hamill
“I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.” TryingKindMeanLittlesDoneRunningWantedBitsHoursRolesFiveWeekFitSceneSixLittle BitSevenEightBe KindWorthwhile Author:Guy Pearce
“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsShouldWritingYearsWellsMeanLongStillsBookDifferentDoneBigsAgeTodaySchoolJobsNextLiteratureNamesNationsCommunityMy OwnEnvironmentFiveGenerationsYears AgoHonestlyFive YearsLong WayNext GenerationCatchingRelevanceOur CommunityNigeriaLong Way To Go Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe
“I'm a big comic book geek and I've been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in 1971 or something like that. So, I mean, I read it all and there's certainly a lot of different iterations of Superman that I personally have enjoyed more than others.” MeanBookDifferentBigsReadingFiveSixComicEnjoyedComic BookGeek Author:David S. Goyer
“Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.” PeopleMeanFiveElementsBlueRidiculousAliensRangeFifthFifth Element Author:Mika
“When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. When my mother explained it, I kept after her: What are you saying? What do you mean? I couldn't believe it. It was astonishing. It was like--here's the man who makes all the trees. Then I wanted to be a writer, because, I suppose, it seemed the closest thing to being God.” PeopleMenBelieveMeanLittlesBookFactsWantedMotherFiveTreeHe ManSixManifestationClosestAstonishing Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.” MeanIdeasFiveObjectsGainsAbsolutesComplexesNotionSensesImpressionNo IdeaCosmosReceiving Book:Lovecraft's Works Source: Lovecraft's Works