Quotes 101 till 120 of 315.
-
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
-
I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall. With two ex-wives and five daughters, I thought I wouldn't be involved with anyone for a long time - if ever. Winnie was so gorgeous, my jaw dropped - and it's a big jaw to drop.
-
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
-
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
-
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
-
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
-
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity...
Grunch of Giants (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
-
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
-
I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
-
I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
Rolling Stone magazine, 1996 -
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
-
I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
-
I'd rather be dead than singing ''Satisfaction'' when I'm forty-five.
-
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980) -
I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
-
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
-
I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.
-
I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
All nine-to-five famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 6)
