“Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.” NextFiveGoes OnHundredAimChaptersPolishedNext Chapter Author:Elinor Lipman
“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.” WritingYearsDreamRememberNextFatherLeftFiveMinesMonthsScenePagesEightTwinsFragments Author:Tamora Pierce
“If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.” IfsYearsNextFiveTvsSeriesFive YearsAuditionsTv Series Author:Dominic West
“I want to get into producing. I really learned a lot from 'Girls Next Door.' Kevin Burns is a great producer. He's really talented, and he taught me a lot. I'm just looking forward to spreading the wings a little bit. Five seasons on 'Girls Next Door' was great, but it gets a little repetitive.” WantLittlesGirlNextBitsFiveDoorsTaughtLittle BitSeasonsWingsProducersLooking ForwardKevinRepetitive Author:Holly Madison
“It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.” ThinkingFeelsI CanNightNextCan DoHoursSleepFiveToughWake UpWasting TimeGoing To Sleep Author:Dave Grohl
“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 might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.” InspirationalYearsStoriesMightTodayNextSuccessfulFiveMonthsTomorrowFive YearsNext Year Author:Jon Jones
“I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, 'Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live ..'” SaidTwoYoungThreeNextGivenMorningFiveWeekHugeArmsDoctorsSizeLegsEveningDrsFeverTwo WeeksTremblingSwollenInjection Author:Eva Mozes Kor
“I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950.” YearsNextPresidentFiveCollegePressesMeetingsSeriesFive YearsLos AngelesBostonMinnesotaYears Of Experience Author:Billy Graham
“One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.” MenWellsKindSaidHardKidsYoungGuyNextLeftLinesWatchesFiveMinutesFieldsOne DayWeaknessSittingBallsLeagueOld ManDishesHelplessFenceCurvesFive MinutesBack And ForthPitcherRobinsRibsBattingCatchersWagnerLeft Field Author:Burleigh Grimes
“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
“The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.” ArtEndsNextHouseFiveDoorsBedStrategyStudiosAvailablePace Author:Sara Genn
“But instead they tell you they'll come to fix your cable between noon and five, and I say, okay, I'll pay my next bill between July and November, but they don't laugh.” NextPayLaughingFiveOkayBillsCablesJulyNovemberNoon Author:Tim Dorsey
“Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.” SaidFilmValuesNextOpportunitySoundInterestFiveMinutesEventsPaintingInvestmentRateSpeedSubstanceDistinctionBitesConsumptionWickednessFive MinutesRelentlessInstagramTextureTweetDeliveryInterest RateClipWarholSound BitesSporting EventsTinderTardiness Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.” IfsWaySaidIdeasSometimesWould BeRunningThreeNextWishMy OwnAbilityNumbersTalkingFiveWeekDyingFineMonthsLimitsRichesBlockDryEmbarrassmentNumber Three Author:Woody Allen
“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.” ThinkingTryingThreeNextFunProcessGoalFiveHappenedHundredOpeningSixtyShakingLiftingTry AgainExaminingThe Next OneChristmas Present Author:Benjamin Hoff
“I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.” YearsLastsNextGrowthResultsCompanyEconomyFiveMonthsFinancialFive YearsRevenueMost AmazingPredictingPipelineLast Five YearsFinancial Results Author:Steve Ballmer
“I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.” StillsBookHomePastThreeReadingNextHalfFiveOne DayLibraryClockNext DayBook ReadingFurious Author:Fay Weldon
“There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.” InspirationNextFiveMeditationStageContemplationConcentrationIllumination Author:Benjamin Creme
“It's not something to complain about, but just the major difference between college and the pros is that in college you're guaranteed four to five years so long as you don't do anything criminally and in the pros you're guaranteed one day because you can be cut the next.” YearsLongNextDifferencesFiveFourCuttingCollegeOne DayMajorsComplainingFive Years Author:Robert Griffin III
“What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.” ChildrenRealFeelingsProblemNextFiveFourObjectsColorCoupleSpendingDecadesHandleFinanceInstanceMore TimeArrangementsFidelityDiscussingReal ProblemsHouseworkGownsHyperPrioritizeChild RearingWedding DayBridesmaids Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.” YearsLooksMayWarTodayNextPeaceResultsFiveConflictInevitableFive YearsTemporaryAppeasementPostponementChamberlain Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much. I think this is, in a weird way, part of the health care debate. It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money.” PeopleThinkingWayCareNextBitsRichFiveBuildingHairDebateHealth CareAbandonedHarlemParlorHmmAbandoned Buildings Author:Chris Rock
“The last five-six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don't think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next 'president.' I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.” ThinkingMenWantWould BeLastsNextPresidentFiveHe ManHonorSixHaiti Author:Michel Martelly
“I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn't know the name of the next street over.” KnowsYearsRememberNextNamesCitiesFiveStreetsFive Years Author:Christian Bale
“[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected... But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn't how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsLooksStoriesUsePastRememberNextSocialFiveBuiltSevenConnectedFive YearsSiteSeven YearsNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkStory People Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.” YearsLastsNextFiveWeekInternetYears AgoUnionsFranceJapanAustraliaAfghanistanSovietFree SpeechLast YearSoviet UnionTurkeysNext WeekNorwayMalaysiaBolivia Book:The Lower River Source: The Lower River