Five Quotes

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].

To drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C., I started by impose ago five-year lobbying ban on white house officials, and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.

I think I'll do well in Michigan. I've been talking about cars for five years.

I don't make a deal with Sergeant Bergdahl, where we get Bergdahl, a traitor, and they get their five people that they most wanted. Five for one.

It's going to mean four or five justices, super liberal, placed on the Supreme Court. Our country will never, ever be the same.

There was a time when we would pick up Women's Wear Daily and couldn't wait to see what it read. And now, you get it five minutes later on your iPad or your phone! The same has to apply to fashion.

I think every year you're in the NFL you probably lose three or five years off your lifespan.

It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

Man, it just cost me five dollars to beat my own meat... God bless the United States of America.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.

You a star in my eyes. You and all them white girls, Party of Five

Most people spend their lives on their endeavors, and I get the privilege to have been doing this since I was five. I get to go play and have fun and entertain people.

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

I have to prove myself five times over.

I can't walk five steps without someone on a walkie talkie going, 'She's wandering over there.' I'm pretty stuck, but hey, it's been great.

My thing is to be ready to pitch every five days and give my team a chance to win.

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them and wouldn't let me watch anything else.

In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.

Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.

I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold.

I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!

You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.

I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

I ride five days out of the week. In fact, I take my bike as much as I can, especially with L.A. traffic. You want to get in and out, all the time.

I was born in London and lived there until I was five. We traveled a lot. But really San Diego is my hometown. It's where I went to high school.

A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it.

If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun.

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.