“It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it, and I realized I hadn't read the play. So I read it. Then I realized that Troy (my character) was 53 - and I was 55 at the time. I realized I better hurry up! I might be too old!” YearsPlayCharacterMightHappenedYears AgoOriginalsSevenI RealizedFenceBroadwaySeven YearsAugustScreenplaysWilson Author:Denzel Washington
“I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting to us. It really was, to a five- or six-year-old, quite a thrilling enticement to revolt. The anarchy sign scratched in desk tops, and so on.” YearsMeanRememberFiveSixExcitingSevenPhenomenonAnarchyPunkDesksThrillingRevoltPlaygroundsSix Year OldsEnticement Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.” ThinkingYearsMayHateSpaceJourneyTenI HateSevenDependent Author:John Glenn
“Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.” IdeasFilmWeekSevenNew IdeasSeven Days Author:Jim Jarmusch
“When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said, "Oh, my daughter's such a big fan of the show." And I said, "Can I meet her?" And around the corner came this seven-year-old. I was horrified and I almost said to her, "Lady, what are you doing? [American Horror Story] is not for seven-year-olds, I can tell you."” YearsSaidI CanStoriesShowsBigsFansHorrorDaughterSevenCornersStoresMy DaughterNew OrleansSeven YearsGroceriesAround The CornerGrocery StoresHorror StoriesAmerican Horror Story Author:Kathy Bates
“My favorite [costume in collection] is the white dress Marilyn Monroe wore in the subway breeze scene in 'The Seven Year Itch.'” YearsWhiteSceneDressesSevenMy FavoriteCollectionsCostumesBreezeSeven YearsSubway Author:Debbie Reynolds
“I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.” TwoMotherFatherFiveSevenGreekTwo Sisters Author:George Michael
“No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most of which are at least seven years or more old.” MenNeedsYearsWellsKindStoriesOne ThingHe ManTerribleHarderSevenStorytellingSeven Years Author:Roxane Gay
“It was very strange, because my father [ Erwin Rommel] received the first call at seven o'clock in the morning. And [Hans] Speidel told my father, "I will call you up in one hour when I see more clearly what's going on." After an hour, Speidel said, "Yes, the landing took place in Normandy." And the German Navy had told my father that it was too stormy. And that the British and the Americans and the French can't come. And my father believed him.” FirstsSaidFatherHoursMorningStrangeSevenBritishClockNavyLandingOne HourStormyNormandyRommel Author:Manfred Rommel
“Chelsea Manning, who's now set to be free May 17th [2017], after Obama shortened her sentence from 35 years to seven. According to her attorneys, she is already the longest-held whistleblower in U.S. history.” YearsMaySevenSentencesAttorneyChelseaWhistleblowers Author:Amy Goodman
“I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on it for seven years. I was putting into words the stuff I was teaching, and I was writing it up and thought, "Dude, you're writing a book."” KnowsWritingYearsBookWarStuffClassWrittenTeachingTaughtAmountDrugSevenNonfictionSeven YearsWriting A BookWar On Drugs Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years that you never heard of playing live? You never heard of them making a record. You never heard of them in anybody else's band, and all of a sudden they're the biggest thing going. That to me, that's to me social media music. I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong but it is what it is.” ThinkingYearsLastsSocialRecordsFiveHeardGroupsHonestMediaBandSixSevenSocial MediaEightBeing HonestIt Is What It Is Author:Joe Louis Walker
“I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a bible, a deck of playing cards, a bottle of sherry, and stacks of yellow sticky pads. I shut myself in for six, seven hours. I have an arrangement with the hotel that no one may go in my room. After three or four months, they might slip notes under my door like, "Dear Ms. Angelou, please let us change the linens. We think they might be molding." It's probably true. I let them in if they promise not to touch anything other then the bed.” IfsThinkingTryingMayMightThreeHoursRoomsMorningFourDoorsMonthsPleasePromiseBedSixNotesSevenDearCardsHotelBottlesYellowSlipsArrangementsDictionaryDeckPadsStickyLinenPlaying CardsMoldingSherryThesaurusAngelou Author:Maya Angelou
“I often say, with something like 'The Elephant Man,' had it been an American series for television, where you have to sign your life away for seven years...well, maybe I would never have made 'Sailcloth.'” MenYearsWellsMadeTelevisionSeriesSevenElephantsSeven YearsElephant Man Author:John Hurt
“From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in the center you have the Earth, all the seven heavens and layers, and then you have the Mount of Purgatory and Hell right in the center, and here's Satan flapping his wings and he keeps making the lake of Cocytus ice so you can't get out. So, again, where Heaven and Hell are, who the hell knows that now?” KnowsEarthUniverseHeavenHellWingsSevenIceSatanLakesLayersHeaven And HellPurgatoryFlapping Author:Paul Laffoley
“The jokes were perfect! Then George Carlin started talking about the seven dirty words you can't say on television, then it evolved into social commentary.” SocialPerfectTalkingTelevisionJokesSevenDirtyCommentaryDirty Words Author:Jay Mohr
“I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a day for seven to ten days. Then it would take a few more weeks to get over a vague sort of depression. Then I'd be off on another run.” RunningHoursSleepFiveFourWeekGoes OnTenSevenCrashVagueGet OverCocaine Author:George Carlin
“By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh.” AgeFacesMotherVoiceLaughingSixMy FriendsSeven Author:George Carlin
“My mother didn't get home until about seven most nights and, yes, there was a sense of being very alone after school. She gave me all the proper guidance and influences, but physically, she just couldn't be there.” HomeSchoolMotherNightInfluenceSevenGuidanceAfter School Author:George Carlin
“Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.” MeanUseUsedNamesMovementSevenFiftyFortyOperaTruthfulOrchestraDisobedienceChorusCivil DisobedienceSatyagrahaNetherlands Author:Philip Glass
“I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric circles of availability. There are Green Rooms within Green Rooms literally within Green Rooms. There are seven or eight degrees of exclusivity, and within each circle of exclusivity, everyone is so happy to be there, and they don't know that the next level exists.” KnowsBigsArtistNextLevelsRoomsSituationGoneRocksDegreesGreenSevenEightCirclesFascinatingConcertsInvitationsStadiumsNext LevelAvailabilityExclusivityRock Concerts Author:William Gibson
“I wish I had a typical workday. I struggle to get up at seven and almost always fail. I just try to get to my office as soon as I can, but it's always later than I would like.” TryingI CanWishStruggleFailingOfficeSevenGet UpTypical Author:Alison Bechdel
“Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.” IfsYearsBodyCareYears AgoSevenCancerCriticalTake CareYour BodySeven Years Author:Eve Ensler
“[The Dutch] people want [refugees to be safe] but don't come here. And don't forget, people are very angry about that, that most of the people who came to Holland were younger people, often young men who crossed before coming to Holland six of seven safe countries in order to be in Holland. If they just wanted to be safe, they would have stopped at Turkey or maybe if you find Turkey unsafe, in Greece.” PeopleIfsMenWantCountryWantedYoungOrderForgetSafeSixAngrySevenYoung ManRefugeeTurkeysGreeceDutchHollandUnsafe Author:Geert Wilders
“People always like to have a good time and laugh, and, [among] the vast majority of the seven billion people on this earth, one thing that we all have in common is at some point we all need to pair up and find some sort of significant other, some sort of romantic counterpart.” PeopleNeedsEarthCommonLaughingOne ThingMajoritySevenBillionsSignificantGood TimesPairsHaving A Good TimeCounterpartsSignificant Other Author:Jay Baruchel
“Accordingly, it is not a Muslim ban at all, but a suspension of entrants from seven countries with conditions on the ground that both promote terrorism and make effective vetting impossible.” CountryImpossibleConditionsSevenTerrorismBansSuspension Author:David B. Rivkin
“My job on The Gunslinger Born was to take Stephen King's novel and transform it into a detailed, seven issue, scene-by-scene story.” StoriesJobsBornNovelIssuesKingsSceneSevenGunslinger Author:Robin Furth
“Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven.” ShouldBookStoriesBornCuttingSevenEightComicBrokeEditorsComic BookCompactGunslinger Author:Robin Furth
“There was one sequence of days [making Lincoln in the Bardo] when I had halfway decided to use the historical nuggets, but I wasn't quite sure it would work. I'd be in my room for six or seven hours, cutting up bits of paper with quotes and arranging them on the floor, with this little voice in my head saying, "Hey, this isn't writing!" But at the end of that day, I felt that the resulting section was doing important emotional work” WritingLittlesImportantEndsUseFeltBitsVoiceHoursRoomsCuttingEmotionalPaperSixDecidedHistoricalSevenHeySectionsSequenceHalfwayArrangingNuggetsVoices In My Head Author:George Saunders
“All I cared about was the music, like hearing Townes [ Van Zandt] talking about "For the sake of the song"; it's all that mattered. In spite of me a couple of things happened, mainly the Eagles and Seven Bridges Road. That certainly helped me survive. Joan Baez, Rita Coolidge, and Ian Matthews did it.” SongTalkingHappenedCoupleSevenSakeHearingThings HappenBridgesSpiteVansEaglesMatthew Author:Steve Young
“[Spike Lee ] went to a game six playoff game at Indiana which was a hostile environment believing we could bring it back to New York for a game seven. That's just the kind of person he is. Also his commitment to the team and our friendship.” BelieveKindPersonsGamesEnvironmentTeamNew YorkSixCommitmentSevenHostileIndianaPlayoffsHostile EnvironmentPlayoff Games Author:John Starks
“I've been preparing [Chinese Zodiac] for seven years, spent seven years on writing the script, spent over a year on filming it.” WritingYearsSevenScriptsChinesePreparingSeven YearsZodiac Author:Jackie Chan
“Gil Clancy told me to move around for six or seven rounds, but when you're a puncher and you catch someone, you got after them. And in that fight [with George Foreman in 1999] my timing was off and I got caught.” MovingFightingSixSevenRoundsCaughtTiming Author:Gerry Cooney
“In real life, when you have an emotional experience, it's never just because of the thing that's been said. There's the backstory. It's like [Ernest] Hemingway's iceberg theory - the current emotional moment is the tip of the iceberg and all of the past is the seven-eighths of the iceberg that's underwater.” SaidRealMomentsPastEmotionalTheorySevenCurrentsReal LifeUnderwaterIcebergTip Of The Iceberg Author:George Saunders
“I remained dedicated to my desires, and it's what enabled me to come back after being fired seven or eight times, whatever it was.” DesireSevenEightDedicated Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and handed it in to my teacher. She told my mother I was going to be a writer. Since then, I always kept a journal and wrote poetry, plays, stories.” YearsPlayStoriesWantedMotherKnownTeacherPagesSevenGradesJournalSeven Years Author:Renee Watson
“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” InspirationalWellsFeelingsMorningTerribleHealthyAdultsSevenAverageGet UpHealth CareThirtyGood MorningFunny Good Morning Author:Jean Kerr
“The Republicans have been baying at the moon for seven years, in March it was seven years since the president signed the bill. They've been baying at the moon that they had a better idea.” YearsHas BeensIdeasPresidentRepublicanMoonBillsSevenMarchSeven Years Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Many social critics wag their fingers at what they perceive to be frivolous luxury spending. But that misses the point that consumption norms are local. It's not just the rich who spend more when they get more money. Everyone else does, too. The mansions of the rich may seem over the top to people in the middle, but the same could be said of middle-class houses as seen by most of the planet's seven billion people.” PeopleMayDoeSaidSeemsHouseSocialClassRichMiddleMissingPlanetsFingersCriticsSevenSpendingBillionsLocalsLuxuryPerceiveMiddle ClassMore MoneyConsumptionNormMansionsFrivolousOver The TopWags Author:Robert H. Frank
“The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English film I did was 1998. So that's why I live here. It's because I get more work. I'll travel back for radio, you know what I mean. I've just got to consider myself to be living in the middle of the ocean, and that way I have a really nice career, if I'm prepared to do television, radio, theater, and film.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMeanReasonDoneLastsAmericaFilmCareersNiceMiddleTelevisionOceanSixEnglandTheaterPreparedSevenRadioSeven YearsReally Nice Author:Rufus Sewell
“I'm not one of these people who says, 'I don't watch TV much.' Or looks down their nose at TV and they watch it for 20, 30 hours a week. I'm so busy. I work seven days a week that I just don't watch TV.” PeopleLooksHoursWatchesWeekTvsSevenBusyNosesSeven Days Author:Vincent Bugliosi
“I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.” ThinkingTwoNumbersTwentiesSevenOne TimePencilsGood Day Author:Ernest Hemingway
“She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college and was a great fan of Noam Chomsky. She was a real lefty and yet was not able to meet her dream of becoming an artist. She got drafted into motherhood big time - seven kids - and that wasn't the life that she had planned. So she opened the path so that I could be the artist that she wanted to be.” BookRealHomeDreamBigsKidsAbleWantedArtistReadingPathFansCollegeBecomingConsciousSevenRadioMotherhoodThanksLeftiesStudsGreat Fans Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I feel like you've got to go through some things in order to get somewhere. He [GOD] took me through nearly seven years of hell, but allowed me to grow and mature into a man and true professional.” MenFeelsYearsOrderGrowsHellLike YouSevenMatureSeven Years Author:Michael Clayton
“I like fighting at the higher weight. That extra seven pounds helps because of energy, strength and I can focus more throughout the training camp, without having to put extra time into making weight.” I CanHelpingFightingEnergyFocusHigherTrainingWeightSevenExtrasPoundsCampsTraining CampExtra TimeSeven Pounds Author:Lamont Peterson
“This crazy ban on the seven states, where we can't accept immigrants, almost every analyst points out the obvious: It just increases the threat of terror. It lays the basis for terror. It's just like the atrocities in Abu Ghraib and Bagram and Guantanamo. They're the most fabulous recruiting techniques for Al Qaeda and ISIS.” StatesAcceptingCrazyBasesIncreaseLaysThreatSevenTerrorObviousTechniqueImmigrantsAlsFabulousIsisBansAl QaedaAtrocitiesAnalystsGuantanamoAbu Ghraib Author:Noam Chomsky
“Now, you ban not the whole Muslim world. You ban seven states, seven states that have not been responsible for a single terrorist act. Those are the seven [Donald Trump] banned. But, you leave the ones that really are responsible, like Saudi Arabia, which is the center for propaganda and funding and so on for radical Islamic Jihadism, well you can't touch them because of business interests, also they have oil and so on and so forth.” WorldWellsStatesWholeInterestTrumpResponsibleSevenOilTerroristRadicalPropagandaIslamicFundingBansArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisBannedMuslim World Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Declaration of Independence was only partially applied for women and for certain immigrants such as the Chinese. And it wasn't applied to get rid of corporate welfare and cronyism. People who had special connections got special deals from the beginning. So all of those violations of what the Declaration of Independence expressed, have led to the problems we have today. So, the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons for seven generations, or much longer. Forever.” PeopleProblemTodayCertainFatherSinDealsForeverGenerationsSpecialSonConnectionsIndependenceSevenChineseCorporateWelfareImmigrantsDeclarationViolationDeclaration Of IndependenceCronyism Author:Charles Koch
“The world is a dangerous place. And it's a more dangerous place than it was seven years ago [before Obama].” WorldYearsDangerousYears AgoSevenSeven YearsDangerous Places Author:Kris Kobach
“When you're doing improv for seven years, you're an old soul of the improv world.” WorldYearsSoulSevenSeven YearsOld Soul Author:Kurt Braunohler