“My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.” YearsMindFirstsBookDreamGuyThreeTenBuriedThree YearsKillersCurvesThis GuySerialsSerial KillerSewers Author:Tim Cahill
“The only guys I like watching these days are Roger Gracie, Marcelo Garcia, Kron and a few others. Those guys finish and go for submissions. They don't hold the sleeves and stall for ten minutes.” GuyMinutesTenThese DaysSubmissionSleevesRogerGuy I Like Author:Relson Gracie
“It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.” PeopleKnowsMayDifferentHardGuySuccessfulTenMindsetBeing SuccessfulSuccessful People Author:Rico Love
“When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.” UsedGuyTenBunchSellingFestivalsOystersMarvellousEdinburgh Author:Paul Merton
“And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they've got all the money! It just doesn't matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER! It just doesn't matter! It just doesn't matter!” IfsMenChildrenStillsMatterPlayHandsTogetherGuyGirlWinningHeavenSidesLosesWeekFieldsTenDown AndEvery ManNosesLooking GoodMen WomenMeatballsHands TogetherMohawks Author:Bill Murray
“Most of the comics that I talk to I've never talked to for more than ten minutes ever. So 95 percent of the time you're really hearing the first conversation between me and that guy on the podcast.” FirstsGuyMinutesTenConversationPercentHearingThat Guy Author:Marc Maron
“I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.” ThinkingNeedsKindSchoolGuyStuffHalfOpinionLaughingMinutesInformationTenPercentHigh SchoolAccessBarsDumbIdiotMake SenseLoudRealisingDumb GuyInformed Opinions Author:Bill Burr
“Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.” IfsMatterGuyHoursHalfMinutesStupidTenAccidentsCleverWheelsHalf HoursVery CleverStupid Guy Author:Bernard Lietaer
“I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New York and saw some of my graffiti. He was impressed and asked if I sold canvases. I really had not made any canvases of my graffiti work yet, but told him I could make one for him. He then commissioned me to make ten paintings and put on my first art show. Between the sold out show and the cops chasing after me it created a lot of media and I've been doing really well since then.” IfsFirstsWellsArtMadeRealShowsGuySawsMediaNew YorkPaintingTenMeatInvestorsCopImpressedEstatesChasingGraffitiPackingSold Out Author:Alec Monopoly
“Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's pretty strange. I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left! And it was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever seen. So that was probably the highlight of our trip here so far.” LittlesTwoMomentsGuyLeftCitiesSawsNew YorkStrangeTypeWalkingTenHundredComplainingYesterdayCardsShopsSecondsThis GuyBucksRippedHighlightsDarrenPlaying Cards Author:Bernard Fanning
“I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it.” IfsWantGivingPlayGuyTenGiving UpBalls Author:Dontrelle Willis
“The money has to be deferred with what they call "clawback," which means they can get it back if I lose it all. So that guy making ten million a year selling credit default swaps, if we're going to keep five million of it in escrow for ten years, and with the right to go back and get it, if he starts losing money, then we're going to give people the right incentives not too take so much risk.” PeopleIfsGivingYearsMeanGuyLosesMillionsFiveRiskTenLosingCreditSellingIncentivesThat GuyDefaultLosing MoneyCredit Default Swap Author:Richard Thaler
“Sometimes I train in the middle of the night, all on my own. Can't sleep, don't want to sleep, get up, go to the gym, work. This is early for me, being here at half ten in the morning, this is really early, and I'm only here because I screwed up yesterday and kept you hanging around. Other times I'll call up my wrestling coach, or my jiu jitsu coach, or my deep-tissue guy, and want to really focus on one part of what I do. I train in all these different disciplines.” WantDifferentSometimesNightGuyMy OwnSleepHalfMorningFocusMiddleDisciplineTenTrainCoachesYesterdayGet UpGymWrestlingTissuesMiddle Of The NightScrewed UpCan't SleepHanging AroundJiu JitsuWant To Sleep Author:Conor McGregor
“Full House was a show that was done for ten-year-olds. The critics hated it. They said terrible, terrible things about it. But it should have been reviewed by ten-year-olds. That's who it was made for. They loved it. And if they loved it, great. Why the hell does a fifty-year-old guy working at a big newspaper have to tell me I'm a piece of crap?” IfsShouldYearsDoeHas BeensMadeSaidDoneShowsBigsGuyHouseHellPiecesTerribleTenCriticismShould HaveCriticsNewspapersHatedFiftyCrapThey SaidTerrible ThingsShould Have BeenOld GuysFull HouseFifty Year Olds Author:Bob Saget
“There's ten of us, we've been best friends for thirty years. Ten guys. And their wives, and their kids, are all family now. I'm not big on keeping up on the phone, none of us are. Some guys I won't talk to for two months and then you pick up the phone and hear, "So, anyway." There's no guilt or where have you been? or what's been going on? or why haven't we talked? There's an ease to it.” YearsTwoBigsKidsGuyWifeHavensMonthsTenPicksGuiltPhonesEaseThirtyThirty YearsTwo Months Author:George Clooney
“At least here in Stockholm if you go out to any of our 4 metal clubs and talk to ten guys you can be sure nine of them play in a band! The bad thing is there is no underground movement here anymore. Going to a show with local band's ten years ago would mean at least 300 people, now you can be lucky if 50 shows up!” PeopleIfsYearsMeanPlayShowsGuyMovementLuckyBandTenYears AgoClubsNineLocalsBad ThingsMetalsStockholm Author:Johan Hegg
“I took a correspondence course with a guy at Ohio University. He gave me ten exercises, and one of them resulted in the story "Bactine." It pleased me a lot more than anything else I'd ever done, so I kept messing around and by the time I got to Ohio State I'd written maybe eight stories.” StatesDoneStoriesGuyCoursesWrittenExerciseTenUniversityEightOhioCorrespondenceOhio State Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“A new software is being developed so the psychological operations guys and the Pentagon's strategic communications guys - and we don't really know who's running it - but this is all totally out in the open. It's this new program that will allow them to have like ten fake Twitter accounts and ten Facebook accounts so you can pretend.” KnowsRunningGuyCommunicationTenProgramAccountsPsychologicalOperationsFakeSoftwareStrategicPentagon Author:Michael Hastings
“There have been times where I have definitely felt like I was a john. As a pin-up photographer for ten years, when I was photographing men and women, to be honest, sometimes I felt like I was a john, especially when I was shooting guys because they - you know - they had to have big erections in the photos.” KnowsMenYearsHas BeensSometimesBigsGuyFeltHonestTenMen And WomenPhotographerBeing HonestShootingPinsPin Up Author:Annie Sprinkle
“My career isn't gonna screetch to a halt because some guy in Westbury filmed ten minutes of the show. "Well, we were gonna give you the sitcom but saw that bit you did about the Mormons in Westbury, so get outta here."” GivingWellsShowsGuyBitsCareersSawsMinutesTenHaltSitcom Author:Jay Mohr
“The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times, then you're a bad guy, and then the media repeats that.” IfsPlayFilmGuyMediaTenRepeatsBad GuysUntrue Author:John Malkovich
“We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted, and we spoke to a lot of people. When I met James [McAvoy] in the Soho Hotel with Jon Baird, the director, he looked about ten years old. I thought there's no way he's going to be a forty-year-old divorced alcoholic cop. I thought, really lovely guy, I'll let him and John talk and see if they get on.” PeopleIfsWayYearsKindMadeWantedFilmGuyLevelsMetsDirectorsTenLovelyFinanceHotelFortySpokesCopDivorcedAlcoholicsFilthSohoForty Years Old Author:Irvine Welsh
“I'm all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I've been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don't have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.” MenYearsTogetherGuyStudyGroupsTenMen And WomenMeetingsScriptureFridayBible StudySmall Groups Author:Bob Goff
“Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.” ThinkingFeelsI CanGuyFallFiveTenNegativeResponseFalling In LoveCrowdsEducationalEnormousCrushReviewsWowCentsFifteenThis GuyEightyAmazonObnoxious Author:Gary Vaynerchuk
“So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I'll say, 'That's right, keep the same haircut for ten years.' How fun is that?” YearsGuyFunHairTenJokesConservativeMessBuddyHaircutsMess With Me Author:Tom Brady
“Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)” YearsSaidGuyFightingBornHoursPleasureParticularBrokenTenOfficeTwentiesPrisonHungrySatDaringGrandfatherDesksVowMy GrandfatherTrampsFighting For LoveOffice Desk Author:Isaac Babel
“white criminals commit the biggest crimes.a brother might rob a bank. a white man will rob a pension fund. the brother is going to get ten to fifteen years because he had a gun. the white guy is going to get a congressional hearing because he had a job and a nice suit.” MenYearsMightJobsGuyWhiteNiceCrimeBrotherTenGunHearingCriminalsCommitSuitsFundFifteenWhite ManPensionFifteen YearsWhite Guys Author:Wanda Sykes
“And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldMeanMadeSaidShowsKidsAgeWantedGuyTenSafeAdultsTwentiesAverageReactionsAffectedViewersBangsProtective Author:Scott Westerfeld