To Five Quotes

#1. I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.

Nina Conti

#2. 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

#3. Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

Don Bluth

#4. 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

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

Robin Thicke

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Gunter Grass

#11. Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

Irvine Welsh

#12. The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

Nancy Gibbs

#13. Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.

Peter Ustinov

#14. When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.

Shantel VanSanten

#15. I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!

Reggie Lee

#16. Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

Kate Williams

#17. Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

John Deacon

#18. Proud parents to two children
Grandparents to five more
Who visit the "Harper Bakery"
It's Gran's cooking they all adore

John Walter Bratton

#19. Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive
I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive

Jay-Z

#20. The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

David Sedaris

#21. I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

Vinny Guadagnino

#22. I sometimes clean my ears up to five times a day. Even having buds in the same room makes me want to have a go. When I'm in India, the cheap ones freak me out because I worry they'll drop off inside my ear. In the U.K., I like Johnson's.

Jade Jagger

#23. From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

Adam Clayton

#24. I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

Helen Fielding

#25. I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

Steve Finley

#26. I also swim four to five times a week, and once you get rolling into a rhythm of breathing and movement, your mind can truly untether, which I find so refreshing.

Patrick Fabian

#27. From a ball of mud taken from a birds plumage, Charles Darwin raised 82 separate plants, belonging to five distinct species!

Rachel Carson

#28. Preparation 500 is a cow horn packed with the manure of lactating bovines
no bullshit
and buried two and a half to five feet underground for the winter.

Katherine Cole

#29. The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself:;, and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.

Larry Wall

#30. I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

Aby Rosen

#31. Boxes of records made me think that LPs should be outlawed or at least limited to five per person, and I soon came to despise the type who packs even her empty shampoo bottles, figuring she'll sort things out and throw them away once she's settled into her new place.

David Sedaris

#32. I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

#33. You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.

Mary Meeker

#34. I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

Ruby Wax

#35. The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

Mike McCready

#36. Seen from the expressway at quarter to five in the morning, Boston seems a city of the dead brooding over some tragedy in its past - a plague, perhaps, or a curse.

Stephen King

#37. Did not want to "just have some office job and work nine to five like everyone else." Ian was on a sneaky search for glory. He suffered less from the tyranny of the should than he did from the tyranny of the should-not. His

Meg Jay

#38. Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

Peter Gabriel

#39. Cookies are unbelievable. I have a problem, I eat like, four to five a day.

Ryan Cabrera

#40. Clint's body count was now up to five - six including the vegetable. Killing was becoming a habit, and Clint realized that it was starting to bother him less each time. He feared that he was becoming desensitized to death, too accustomed to killing.

William T. Prince

#41. Why should Dickie want to come back to subways and taxis and starched collars and a nine-to- five job? Or even a chauffeured car and vacations in Florida and Maine? It wasn't as much fun as sailing a boat in old clothes and being answerable to nobody for the way

Patricia Highsmith

#42. We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.

Gary Hamel

#43. Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being busy.

Akshay Kumar

#44. People in America get up and go to their nine-to-five jobs every day and are oblivious to all these battles and wars and people dying every minute all over the world. This is life. This is how other countries live. This is a daily occurrence in some places.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#45. up to five hundred genes change their output when a person makes positive lifestyle changes, such as improved diet, moderate exercise, meditation, and stress management.

Deepak Chopra

#46. The next thing I knew I was listening to five people shouting. What was that all about, anyway?

Cassandra Clare

#47. It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky.

Rex Smith

#48. Hopefully, anyone who saw a woman riding a screaming mermaid in a wheelchair down Leavenworth at a quarter to five in the morning would just think they'd had too much to drink.

Seanan McGuire

#49. Ebola has spread to five West African countries and infected 5,864 people, of which 2,811 have died, according to the World Health Organization's Sept. 22 report.

Anonymous

#50. The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Paul Dickson

#51. It's not something to complain about, but just the major difference between college and the pros is that in college you're guaranteed four to five years so long as you don't do anything criminally and in the pros you're guaranteed one day because you can be cut the next.

Robert Griffin III

#52. Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

Suze Orman

#53. What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and No.3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.

Jason Kilar

#54. In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.

Ward Churchill

#55. That's a federal crime," I told him. "Punishable by three to five years in a minimum-security prison. You'll get passed around like condiments at a barbeque." "My hole is already quivering," he said.

T.J. Klune

#56. And I love to listen to the stars at night. It is like listening to five hundred million little bells ...

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#57. When I hear about something that's hot, I back away from it. So I go and discover the stuff I wasn't paying attention to five years ago.

Colin Munroe

#58. I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

Sarah West

#59. I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#60. My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

Nicki Minaj

#61. The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men. He's always there from quarter to five to twenty to eight. It's six now, so if you care for a stroll this beautiful evening I shall be very happy to introduce you to two curiosities.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#62. I've known the anxiety of being completely lost, flying at night. It can be extreme. You're travelling at close to five hundred miles an hour, and every minute that goes by takes you further into being lost unless you get help from ground radar somewhere or somehow figure out the error.

James Salter

#63. The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.

Vance Havner

#64. If you look at Hollywood today, compared to five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago or 30 years ago, the change from moment to moment has always been extraordinary. It never stops moving.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#65. If you can feel it on your face, it's about three to five. Leaves in constant motion, six to eight or so. Small tree branches in constant motion, about ten. Large branches in constant motion, twelve to fifteen. Dorothy and Toto hurtling past thirty feet off the ground, time to go home.

Peter Lessler

#66. We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.

Tom DeLonge

#67. I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

Steve Garvey

#68. And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

Christian Bale

#69. My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.

Ted Danson

#70. The promises of Scripture may very roughly be reduced to five heads. It is promised (1) that we shall be with Christ; (2) that we shall be like

C.S. Lewis

#71. I sleep as much as I want. I'll sleep, like, 11 hours, unless I'm working. Sometimes I do feel like, 'This is weird; I should just get up so I can fit into the world.' Then I'm like, 'Why?' I don't have a nine-to-five job.

Heather Graham

#72. 'Drake and Josh' was strictly nine to five. We'd go in and know what we were doing, and 'Superhero Movie' was just nuttiness every day because there's a joke every ten seconds.

Drake Bell

#73. Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

Leslie Mann

#74. Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

Stanley Kubrick

#75. The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.

Sukarno

#76. The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

Charles Bukowski

#77. I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

Aidan Gillen

#78. I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Michael Schenker

#79. If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#80. And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.

David Mitchell

#81. During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

Anatoly Chubais

#82. Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

Georgia Jagger

#83. Can you help me move those tables against the wall?" Mama pointed to five tables in the back corner. "The funeral home said they needed four feet of clearance all the way around.

Katie Graykowski

#84. Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.

Gail Devers

#85. I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

Meryl Streep

#86. I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

Matt Dillon

#87. Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

Frances Beinecke

#88. And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

Graeme Murphy

#89. Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.

Roseanne Barr

#90. Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.

Ian McEwan

#91. At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.

Bill Gates

#92. Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.

Mark Zandi

#93. Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas A. Edison

#94. We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy.

Richard Branson

#95. I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Michael J. Fox

#96. Yeah, playing anywhere from three to five gigs a week definitely [helped]. I think all the practice throughout the years and doing what I do paid off.

Bo Bice

#97. I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.

Wladimir Klitschko

#98. Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

Harold S. Kushner

#99. I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

Assata Shakur

#100. You can no longer define your manhood by whether you're on a nine-to-five job or you're making more money than your wife.

Tempestt Bledsoe