Ten Quotes

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack

Yeah, that's a luxury to be able to go to a two-hour yoga class! Sometimes I'll just get on the floor and do it for five, ten minutes. Whatever you can get, you just do it.

I dabble in all kinds of spirituality. I studied Kabbalah for over ten years, and you know it's all basically the same.

One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block

Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate.

Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?

If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.

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.

[Barack] Obama has betrayed Israel, gutted the military, and apologized on ten world tours.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart.

Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by two. I'd multiply by ten or twelve if I had the energy.

You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times.

I keep a lot to myself. Thinking a million things while speaking ten things.

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

I kind of just roll up on stage. I realize that as soon as I find myself wearing something that I haven't worn ten times in the past, I'm like, "Who am I right now? I don't recognize myself!"

Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

The world will break your heart ten times till Sunday,that's guaranteed

Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

Always had a passion for acting since I could remember, but I started when I was ten going for short film and commercial auditions in Los Angeles with my mom's help!

As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?

Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!

The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years?

Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again. With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

At age ten I switched to guitar, and I've loved the instrument ever since. And I love to practice. I just do. I just love guitar. It still brings a smile to my face!

But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something more going on than just reflecting the neighborhood, yeah.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie.

Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.

I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.