“Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'” ThinkingWellsKindChildrenGuyParentInterestLosesFiveBrotherPressureLoadEldest Author:Chris O'Dowd
“Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol' freakin' leopard shark... I'm looking at him and I'm thinking, 'OK, he won't hurt me.” ThinkingBigsBeautifulWaterHurtClearFiveWeekFeetCoupleScareSharksHurt MeSurfLeopardsMalibuClear Day Author:Timothy Olyphant
“I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.” ThinkingYearsArtAbilityFiveFieldsMake SenseMartial Arts Author:Jet Li
“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it” ThinkingHumansChildrenTwoAgeIndividualNumbersRaceTakenFiveGroupsMembersLogicEssenceIndependentFishesCertaintyUncertaintyHuman RaceApplesReasoningAppropriateRemarkableEntityAbstractionFeatsOntology Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.” ThinkingWorldHardFiveBrotherTrainingGoldTrainIncludingChampionMy BrotherMedalAcademyGold MedalsHoustonWorld ChampionsBest Of The BestTaekwondo Author:Diana Lopez
“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.” ThinkingYearsKindI CanEndsSeemsFivePeriodsSixYears AgoConcreteDead Ends Author:James Laughlin
“I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.” ThinkingTwoBodyAbleCertainThreeVoiceFictionFivePaperProfessionFiction WritersSchizophrenic Author:Ridley Pearson
“I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.” ThinkingKindSometimesFiveDirectorsPagesToolsPaintDialogue Author:Todd Phillips
“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.” ThinkingGivingFirstsBookEnoughDreamHalfNovelFiveGiving UpSixDozenPublishersTurned Down Author:Ian Rankin
“I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.” ThinkingLastsFiveMinutesNotionSillyFarmersFive Minutes Author:Matthew Rhys
“If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don't think so, not in the world of magic. In the worlds of magic, there is only one being, reflecting itself in countless forms.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldTogetherFormFiveMagicAwarenessBuddhismReflecting Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.” IfsThinkingFeelsShouldBookEndsEnoughStuffHoursFiveToo MuchCuttingAdapted Author:Jeremy Sisto
“A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensMomentsTogetherSecretFiveShareGrewMembersGrew UpCastsFive YearsWorking TogetherQuartersSecret LifeBest MomentsCast Members Author:Shailene Woodley
“I have so much to grapple with, I don't think too much about me. People call it the "dance of a thousand egos" when you make a movie. If only I had time to worry when I was making a movie about what the hell I was doing. It's sort of a marathon every day. And then at the end of it, you beg the producers for five more marathons.” PeopleIfsThinkingEndsWorryHellFiveToo MuchThousandEgoProducersMarathon Author:Andrew Niccol
“I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).” IfsThinkingHumansWellsMightFallHuman BeingsKnownRolesFiveHappenedMonthsLuckyMarriedWell KnownGet WellNightclubs Author:Eric McCormack
“I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.” ThinkingLongShowsLastsFiveConnected Author:James MacArthur