Quotes with five-point

Quotes 601 till 620 of 653.

  • Franklin Pierce Adams What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Bryce Courtenay What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Aldous Huxley What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki When I am on court, I am so focused on what I am doing, that's all I think about - trying to win the next point.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Ben E. King When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Ang Lee When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • B. Kevin Turner When I talk about that Apple ecosystem, the ability to get one application to run across those five platforms is very difficult. In the future of Microsoft, using HTML5, IE9 and 10, the scalable OS, the ability to do that gets much, much easier.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Bertrand Piccard When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Bernie S. Siegel When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Allen Klein When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Buzz Aldrin When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bruce Nordstrom When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • Billie Jean King When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Ben E. King When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Campbell Brown When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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