Quotes About Five

#1. Creativity needs time. We're all dying. Fuck stagnation. High-five creation.

Chuck Wendig

#2. He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one.

Salman Rushdie

#3. There are two aspects to this world; even though it is fickle, it is within principle. Through the medium of the five senses and intellectual knowledge, it appears fickle and through 'Gnan' (Real Knowledge) it appears to be within principle.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

Jean-Paul Marat

#5. Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.

Avi

#6. Oh, yes, poor little me. Had to have sex with the two most beautiful men on the planet in the same night. It was torture by orgasm. All, I don't know, five or six of them.

Tiffany Reisz

#7. The Tanzanian government recognised there is a problem: that they don't have enough sterile syringes, that they are being reused probably four or five times each, and that this reuse is a massive contributor to their burden of healthcare.

Marc Koska

#8. What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.

George Orwell

#9. Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

Bess Myerson

#10. I love people that, in the face of falling off a cliff, still want to fight about something that happened five minutes ago, going, 'Now, you know I'm right about that,' even though they're facing imminent doom.

Marc Evan Jackson

#11. There are five freedoms:
The freedom to see and hear what is;
The freedom to say what you feel and think;
The freedom to feel what you actually feel;
The freedom to ask for what you want;
The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.

Virginia Satir

#12. Also, as I discovered when I took the Newcastle Personality Assessor, which measures personality according to the Big Five model (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, or OCEAN),

Gretchen Rubin

#13. Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

#14. I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789.

Roger Mahony

#15. Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#16. I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

John McGahern

#17. My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.

Alanis Morissette

#18. If a person is said to have five senses, then whoever has common sense has six.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. You destroyed five million dollars' worth of luxury cars."
"Yes, but none of them are wearing human heads as hood ornaments.

Ilona Andrews

#20. I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

Jennifer Lopez

#21. We shot on location in our very first weeks, in our very first shows. I would like to go on location again, Hawaii would be good!! But normally, we tape five days a week in the studio starting at about 8:00 a.m. and continuing until about 8:00 p.m.

Juliet Mills

#22. The Giants have won. They have won the World Series for the third time in five years. And Madison Bumgarner has firmly etched his name on the all-time World Series record books as one of the greatest World Series pitchers the game has ever seen.

Jon Miller

#23. In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual "There!" - yet

F Scott Fitzgerald

#24. It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one had to leave it.

Mia Ryan

#25. I love coffee, I love my family, I love being in New Zealand - that's honestly one of my top five favourite things - faith is important to me, and I hope to be married one day. I love that coffee was number one.

Zac Farro

#26. The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

Jim Clyburn

#27. I used to love going to shows and finding new bands, but the Internet takes the fun out of it. Like a band? You can buy and download every single song they have ever done within five minutes.

Timothy Simons

#28. I stay healthy - I mean, I've got a sports background and an athletic background. I was in competitive sports since the age of five. I was a personal trainer before I was an actor and a personal trainer for the first few years while I was acting and getting my thesis.

Neil Jackson

#29. The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.

Sara Genn

#30. I need some time to myself by myself! There must be time for thought and music and peace and solitude! Also: No one can keep a creative house and work every day from nine to five. Can't be done, folks. Ain't no way.

Pearl Cleage

#31. Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

Will Rogers

#32. When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!

Louis Tomlinson

#33. Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin.

Richard Preston

#34. The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened!

William Hartnell

#35. Let me tell you, Mr. teacher when you say you'll make me right, in five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white

Johnny Cash

#36. If I was working nine to five, acting would be my hobby ... I always feel like maybe I should do an Open University degree. But I'm never going to.

Claire Foy

#37. I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.

Felix Dennis

#38. Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

Agatha Christie

#39. My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

Doc Severinsen

#40. If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away.

Arca

#41. What's a dick?" Parenting fail number five-hundred-and-eighty-two of today. "Nothing, babe. I said tick. A tick is a bug." "So you called that person a bug?" "Yup. A big bug.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#42. Funny how at twenty-five you worry about not being taken seriously and take being a sex object for granted. Later you take being taken seriously for granted, and worry about not being a sex object.

Helen Fielding

#43. Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

Lukas Foss

#44. When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.

Harold Monro

#45. What the hell am I doing here? I have walked right into the middle of a category-five shitstorm.

Robert Gates

#46. That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Thornton Wilder

#47. I began to count mile markers, made mental lists of everything I really needed: a new pair of shoes, a winter coat for the baby, a ticket for a Greyhound traveling back or ahead five hundred years.

Sherman Alexie

#48. On My First Driving Lesson First things first: A car has five gears. What is that smell? ... Okay, first thing before that first thing: Farting in a car that's not moving makes you an asshole.

Justin Halpern

#49. It was a kiss that was both familiar and brand-new, making me remember a kiss from five years ago, and making me feel like I'd never been kissed before in my life.

Morgan Matson

#50. I remember when I did 'Click' and I'd see Adam Sandler's fan base. He's the guy that people feel that he's their best friend, so he's walking down the street and people sort of high five him and want to tell him a joke or invite him to come home and have a sandwich with them.

Kate Beckinsale

#51. I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

Lady Gaga

#52. A life is about twenty-five thousand days, and a finding occurs about once every twenty-five thousand days.
In other news, once in a lifetime.

Charles Yu

#53. Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.

Billiam Coronel

#54. in BRCA-1 has a 50 to 80 percent chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime (the gene also increases the risk for ovarian cancer), about three to five times the normal risk.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#55. Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.

Billy Boyd

#56. Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

James Wolcott

#57. Pirates almost never sailed with women. Just four or five are known to have worked as pirates during the Golden Age. Two of them - Mary Read and Anne Bonny - became famous, dressing as men and fighting alongside one of the most celebrated of all pirate captains, 'Calico' Jack Rackham.

Robert Kurson

#58. No one knows if he or she or anyone in his or her life will be here in the next five minutes. Don't hold back on expressing yourself. Tell that special person today how you feel, give a hug, cast a smile instead of a frown, and don't forget to tell those you love that you love them.

Suzane Northrop

#59. I come from the school of being (stereotyped) since I was five years old. And I know that I should not be putting my personal issues on the table or letting them effect my work.

Jillian Michaels

#60. Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome.

Mike Scully

#61. I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.'
spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath

Cornelia Funke

#62. Five minutes." He set the alarm. "Ready?"

"Yes, sir."

"You're trying to get me to fuck you by calling me 'sir,' aren't you? It will work. But not yet.

Tiffany Reisz

#63. It's okay to be messed up, because there are five other dudes who are just as messed up as you.

Gerard Way

#64. When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Tony Visconti

#65. I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.

Martin Gore

#66. The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

William Osler

#67. You want to know how many times a day I question why I'm with you?" "Five times." "A hundred." "If you told me you were going to exaggerate, I would have picked that, but I thought we were being realistic here, hun.

Krista Ritchie

#68. I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

Sting

#69. Today, at twenty-five, Travis is the manager of two Starbucks where he oversees forty employees and is responsible for revenues exceeding $2 million per year. His salary is $44,000 and he has a 401(k) and no debt. He's never late to work.

Charles Duhigg

#70. There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.

Robin Thicke

#71. (The Eagles' song "Take It Easy") is clearly a problem of a young man, as no one over thirty-five could sustain interest in seven simultaneous relationships unless they're biracial and amazing at golf.

Chuck Klosterman

#72. THERE IS an old saying that in Belfast it rains five days out

Jack Higgins

#73. This does not come naturally. I have to work out 60 to 90 minutes at least five days a week and stick to a high- fiber, low-calorie eating plan.

Molly Sims

#74. "Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.

Oprah Winfrey

#75. Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

Florynce Kennedy

#76. His wife was a tall, stringy woman, perhaps five years older than her husband - say, forty - with a mouth and chin that seemed shaped for gossiping.

Dashiell Hammett

#77. People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.

Stella McCartney

#78. If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Vladimir Lenin

#79. I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

Kyrie Irving

#80. I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.

Adam Rapp

#81. To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.

Louisa May Alcott

#82. She liked the way he chose a good coat and wore it for five years and then chose another one similar to it.

Kathleen Winter

#83. The term "rock" has, unfortunately, become appropriated by four-year-old girls and accountants. An accountant does something amazingly well on the stock exchange and his buddies high-five him: He's a rock star! A four-year-old girl learned to ride a bicycle: She's a rock star!

Ian Astbury

#84. That, and I'm dying to know what he felt during our kiss. I know it doesn't matter. I know it won't change anything. I know it's juvenile. Whatever. Can't a girl be a girl for, like, five minutes?

Susan Ee

#85. Five basic truths, five foundation-principles of the knowledge about God which Christians have,

J.I. Packer

#86. In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends up being worth doing. That might be a function of risk. That might be a function of price. There are all the variables. But you have to be constantly sorting and choosing and prioritizing.

Sam Zell

#87. On this Twitter thing, at least five people a day say 'bring back the mullet.' My wife told me I'm not allowed. Troy Tulowitzki wants me to grow a rat-tail for his charity. I was like, 'What the heck is a rat-tail?'

John Kruk

#88. The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

Helen Fisher

#89. The five-year-olds were the most important members of the large doll families. Everything pleasant happened to them. They had all the adventures.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#90. Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK.

Usama Fayyad

#91. You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

Bill Lee

#92. They focused on the so-called Big Five traits: Introversion-Extroversion; Agreeableness; Openness to Experience; Conscientiousness; and Emotional Stability.

Susan Cain

#93. Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

Siobhan Fahey

#94. More than five hundred people have flown in space and twelve people have walked on the moon, but only three humans in history have been to the bottom of the ocean.

Bill Nye

#95. I'm far too low maintenance to ever spend more than five minutes getting ready to go out.

Sienna Miller

#96. While the whole world is struggling to help people get their freedom from the dangers of smoking, yet the over five million people, who yearly die from smoking still voluntarily head towards that deadly part.

Sunday Adelaja

#97. Griffin: Dude! You get to film-fuck Sienna Sexton! High five!

S.C. Stephens

#98. The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

Ellie Goulding

#99. We had season tickets to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League, and, as only we Canadians can say, we had prime seats right on the fifty-five-yard line. And

Martin Short

#100. 30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

Gig Young