|

|

Advertisements

Five Or Six Quotes

Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues... Not only can’t pitchers control it, hitters can’t hit it, catchers can’t catch it, coaches can’t coach it and most pitchers can’t learn it. The perfect pitch Picture Quote #1

You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied Picture Quote #1

An actor’s career doesn’t feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product Picture Quote #1

You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you’re always gonna be the new kid Picture Quote #1

We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed... as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones Picture Quote #1

When you have five or six potential hall of famers on your team... that’s when you win penants and championships. The only thing you have to be concerned about is getting the ballplayers to bed on time Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime Picture Quote #1

Like everything, personal relationships and all that stuff is sort of put on ice while you go off to your location for five or six months. So, do I feel more settled in my life and in my work? Absolutely, yeah Picture Quote #1

I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher’s desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better Picture Quote #1

I have always believed that this idea of having a nation go through this very painful five or six years of continuous recession with high unemployment would be detrimental for the economy and the society Picture Quote #1

I didn’t become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don’t just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story Picture Quote #1

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

I’m not the one or two take guy, but I’m not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it’s usually for some technical reasons Picture Quote #1

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition Picture Quote #1

Look at almost any passage, and you’ll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It’s not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it’s just that that’s the way language works Picture Quote #1

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street Picture Quote #1

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any Picture Quote #1

If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations Picture Quote #1

I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren’t things you know about until you do the story Picture Quote #1

It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It’s the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong Picture Quote #1

I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better Picture Quote #1

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without Picture Quote #1

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better Picture Quote #1

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative Picture Quote #1

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt Picture Quote #1

No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed Picture Quote #1

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them Picture Quote #1

We are so little and vain that the esteem of five or six persons about us is enough to content and amuse us Picture Quote #1

1 2 3 4 5

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Advertisements

Text Quotes

Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues... Not only can’t pitchers control it, hitters can’t hit it, catchers can’t catch it, coaches can’t coach it and most pitchers can’t learn it. The perfect pitch (Five Or Six Quotes) You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied (Five Or Six Quotes) An actor’s career doesn’t feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product (Five Or Six Quotes) You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you’re always gonna be the new kid (Five Or Six Quotes) We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed... as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones (Five Or Six Quotes) When you have five or six potential hall of famers on your team... that’s when you win penants and championships. The only thing you have to be concerned about is getting the ballplayers to bed on time (Five Or Six Quotes) Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime (Five Or Six Quotes) Like everything, personal relationships and all that stuff is sort of put on ice while you go off to your location for five or six months. So, do I feel more settled in my life and in my work? Absolutely, yeah (Five Or Six Quotes) I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher’s desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better (Five Or Six Quotes) I have always believed that this idea of having a nation go through this very painful five or six years of continuous recession with high unemployment would be detrimental for the economy and the society (Five Or Six Quotes) I didn’t become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don’t just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story (Five Or Six Quotes) Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that (Five Or Six Quotes) I’m not the one or two take guy, but I’m not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it’s usually for some technical reasons (Five Or Six Quotes) If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition (Five Or Six Quotes) Look at almost any passage, and you’ll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It’s not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it’s just that that’s the way language works (Five Or Six Quotes) I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street (Five Or Six Quotes) Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any (Five Or Six Quotes) If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side (Five Or Six Quotes) I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations (Five Or Six Quotes) I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren’t things you know about until you do the story (Five Or Six Quotes) It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It’s the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong (Five Or Six Quotes) I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better (Five Or Six Quotes) In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without (Five Or Six Quotes) As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment (Five Or Six Quotes) I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better (Five Or Six Quotes) My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative (Five Or Six Quotes) I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt (Five Or Six Quotes) No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed (Five Or Six Quotes) There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them (Five Or Six Quotes) We are so little and vain that the esteem of five or six persons about us is enough to content and amuse us (Five Or Six Quotes)

1 2 3 4 5