Five Quotes - Page 11

• In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

  Kit Williams

  Book, Character, Keys

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• I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers.

  Jay Sekulow

  Faith, Religious, Thinking

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• Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.

  Susannah York

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

  James Merrill

  Thinking, Voice, Imagination

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• The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

  Ken Mehlman

  Leadership, Talking, Issues

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 5, 2005.

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• The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

  Ed Markey

  Leadership, Years, President

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 4, 2005.

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• I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.

  Meg Tilly

  Movie, Children, Writing

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• Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Movie, Dvds, Years

  "Thinking outside the box office". Interview with Xeni Jardin, www.wired.com. December 1, 2005.

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• Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

  Roger Taylor

  Relationship, Doors, Reunion

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• So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

  Fay Wray

  Time, Care, Littles

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• In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Sorry, Sight

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• Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.

  Steve Ballmer

  Years, Marketing, Might

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• My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

  Sally Kirkland

  Girl, School, Kids

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• The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Sea, Independence, Groups

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Thinking, Different

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.196, Penguin

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• Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a stimulant. But if you drink it in moderation, which I think four or five cups a day is, you're fine.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Thinking, Four

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• Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

  Charles Hermite

  Science, Years, Abel

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• The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day

  Kofi Annan

  Work, Reform, Able

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• I'd seen Sage bleed. I'd made Sage bleed. Not that it hurt him any; he healed so quickly...In smaller doses it has incredible healing powers. Ben's voice rang out in my head. I remembered he said that earlier, about...the Elixir of Life.The crackpot, completely bogus, absolutely insane Elixir of Life.Did it actually exist? Had Sage had some? Enough to keep him alive, young, and speed-healing for the last five hundred years?And if so, had he used that time to find one woman, again and again in different incarnations, to love her...or destroy her?

  Hilary Duff

  Love, Hurt, Healing

  Hilary Duff (2011). “Elixir”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• In those early days of our relationship though, I always thought that she was so perfect that there had to be a catch. But there wasn't one. Five months and two days after our very first meeting, we were engaged and nine months after that we were married. And every day that I spent on this planet in the company of Ashling, I experienced the same sense of euphoria that I had tasted on our first date. I experienced something that in its simplest form can only be described as true love.

  Ronan O'Brien

  Love, Two, Perfect

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• You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

  Garrett Fort

  Men, Murder, Century

  "Fictional character: Prof. Von Helsing". "Dracula's Daughter", 1936.

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• Gary Nixon and I have had a loving, committed, faithful relationship for twenty-five years (now over 30) yet we are denied more than a thousand rights and protections that go automatically with marriage.

  Mel White

  Rights, Years, Faithful

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• There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

  Mark Rydell

  Independent, Talking, Years

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• The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind turbines and associated access roads, masts, pylons, and wires.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Wind Turbines, Feet, Mountain

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• So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

  Craig Johnston

  Years, Skills, Two

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