Five Quotes - page 3

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. View quote
Jim Morrison
Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill. View quote
Murray Walker
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. View quote
Henry Adams
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. View quote
Terry Pratchett
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. View quote
Ellen DeGeneres
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. View quote
Pablo Picasso
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. View quote
Lord Byron
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. View quote
William Shakespeare
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive. View quote
E. F. Benson
When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years. (Patrick Marber)
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing. View quote
Jimmy Carr
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time. View quote
Anne Enright
I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it! View quote
Sophia Bush
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. View quote
William Goldman
A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain. View quote
Bill Cosby
In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago. View quote
Jonathan Carroll
When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds. View quote
Dean Karnazes
In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl. View quote
Eve Ensler
Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat. (Curtis Stone)
I don't know what I'm doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I'll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I'll think about a career path. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life. View quote
Burt Ward
Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny. View quote
Mike Myers
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski