Ten Quotes

I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own favorite books are slim, but there's a lot of weight and power in them.

Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.

And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.

Osama bin Laden has ten look-alikes to fool us Americans. Ten look-alikes, and he's married to five of them.

It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

I'd never won the Stanley Cup so I asked Cournoyer right after the final if this was like winning the Cup. He said, 'This is ten times better.' I believed him.

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?

When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.

Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."

Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

[The wall will be] ten feet taller. And every time they [Mexicans] protest, it's going to go up a little bit higher.

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.

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.

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.

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.

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma.

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact on the future direction of life on the planet.

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

You've changed," he said. "You're-uh-" "Yes?" "Taller." "I hope so. I was ten the last time you saw me." "And your hair's really dark now-and short," he added.

Ten, I thought, he's definitely a ten

It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

I worked in fashion for ten years, and like anyone in the fashion industry, even if you leave, you never leave fashion behind.

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

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term.

Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.