“In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.” SaidI CanMomentsUseRememberUsedNumbersFiveFourCuttingFitConversationMy FriendsAgreementImpressedElephantsDesperationArbitraryProceduresCalculationsTrunksParametersNot ImpressedVon Neumann Author:Freeman Dyson
“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
“In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.” YearsWonderFiveTelevisionTvsPeriodsMy FriendsExcitingStuckHatedThirtyFive YearsResearchersExciting Things Author:Mary Harron
“It's gotten to the point where I think my friends would rather hang out with their own kids than hang out with me. And I'm like, "Alright, but where's the loyalty, man. I've known you for twenty-five years. How long have you known your baby, like, a month?"” ThinkingMenYearsLongKidsKnownFiveBabyMonthsMy FriendsTwentiesLoyaltyFive YearsHanging OutAlrightTwenty Five Author:Arj Barker
“I'm 40 years old now and I have my friends from five years old up to 40, over 20 lifelong friends I have. And you can't keep that. You can't have that kind of friendship with people for 40 years from childhood friends if you're not an honorable person and if you're not a respectful person. And that's exactly what I am.” PeopleIfsYearsKindPersonsFiveChildhoodMy FriendsFive YearsHonorableLifelongRespectfulFive Year OldsLifelong FriendsChildhood Friend Author:Tony Vlachos
“I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys. Boys love their mothers whereas girls can be so mean to each other.” IfsWantMeanChildrenMotherGirlBoysFiveMy Friends Author:Adele
“I've gotten to the point where the label of "best friend" is so ridiculous. If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world. I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to. There's Jennifer [Stone], my friend Ashley, and Taylor, and my two cousins.” PeopleIfsWorldPersonsI CanTwoWholeThreeFiveWonderfulMy FriendsStonesRidiculousWhole WorldLabelsCousinPeople In Your LifeJenniferAshley Author:Selena Gomez
“For me, Corsica is a place that I visited with my friends, maybe five or six times over the years, and I'm so happy there that I wanted to make a painting about it almost just to share with my friends, but it's so difficult when all your feelings are one way, and they're very sort of happy and pleasant. It's impossible to make a painting about it.” WayYearsFeelingsWantedDifficultFiveImpossibleSharePaintingSixMy FriendsOne WayPleasant Author:Nate Lowman
“When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsFirstsImportantBigsSongFiveFourInfluenceMy FriendsFive YearsWriting Songs Author:Conor Oberst
“I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning to drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.” ChildrenSelfBitsFiveAnxietyMy FriendsFilledBarsFormer Author:Jane Smiley
“There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.” “And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick. “Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.” YearsLittlesSaidFeelingsTodayTurnsNamesVoiceWaterHalfFiveLowsMouthsMy FriendsCornersSexyRequestSeventeenRoller CoasterCoastersIsaacAugustusAugustus Waters Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns