5in Quotes

#1. My teeth are all right, but they are not American teeth, and my hair is not thick and luscious. Los Angeles is dense with beautiful people, and most of the men who are aspiring actors are 5ft 5in, so I tower above them.

Stephen Merchant

#2. The one piece of advice I would give to any actor is, if you want to go out on the street without being recognised, without even being looked at, go out with a 6ft 8in beautiful transsexual. No one gives you a second glance. Especially when you're 5ft 5in.

Daniel Radcliffe

#3. Wash your dirty dishes like you are washing the infant Jesus.

Jack Kerouac

#4. In other words, stop judging yourself against shiny people. Avoid the shiny people. The shiny people are a lie.

Jenny Lawson

#5. I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it.

Stephen King

#6. Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

Sun Tzu

#7. They were worlds apart in everything but the simplicity of their humanity, and so they were really not apart at all.

Paul Gallico

#8. We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#9. So all things limp together for the only possible.

Samuel Beckett

#10. Would you look at you two? What's the special occa-ouch!

Virginia Smith

#11. You need to learn patience, you grasshopper

Nicholas Sparks

#12. Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.

J. Budziszewski

#14. This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.

Geraldo Rivera

#15. Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. Sandry: "There has to be something we can do."
Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix."
Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.

Tamora Pierce

#17. The purpose of life is Joy.

Esther Hicks