Six Quotes - page 6

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. (Bob Hope)
Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks. View quote
Aldo Leopold
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism but he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program. View quote
Ronald Reagan
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four. View quote
Mark Spitz
I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds. View quote
Meg Cabot
I needed another soda. I'd only had six since breakfast. View quote
Meg Cabot
On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars. View quote
Neal Shusterman
It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer. View quote
Andrea Hirata
Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words. (P. J. O'Rourke)
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft. View quote
Rachel Kushner
Percy smiled at her - that sarcastic troublemaker smile that had annoyed her for years but eventually had become endearing. His sea-green eyes were as gorgeous as she remembered. His dark hair was swept to one side, like he'd just come from a walk on the beach. He looked even better than he had six months ago - tanner and taller, leaner and more muscular. Percy threw his arms around her. They kissed and for a moment nothing else mattered. An asteroid could have hit the planet and wiped out all life, and Annabeth wouldn't have cared. View quote
Rick Riordan
You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building. View quote
Rick Riordan
Even little Herley, who couldn't have been more than eight, looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat. View quote
Rick Riordan
After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England. View quote
Rick Riordan
No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep. View quote
Rick Riordan
Waitress!" Hedge called. "Six double espressos, and whatever these guys want. Put it on the girl's tab. View quote
Rick Riordan
The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter's hand. "Not bad,” I said. "Keep it up! View quote
Rick Riordan
When it comes to sex, the most important six inches are the ones between the ears. View quote
Ruth Westheimer
Half dead's a lot worse than dead, when you know you're gonna die in another three, six days no matter what anyone else does. (Samuel R. Delany)
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman. View quote
Tim Robbins
Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable. View quote
William H. McRaven
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story. View quote
Philip Reeve
You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body. View quote
Philip Seymour Hoffman