Seven famous quotes

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
-- Abbe Pierre

#Keys #Years #Seven

I've been running like this since I was seven.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Running #Nfl #Seven

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.
-- Alain Robert

#Keys #Parent #Seven

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
-- Alexander Woollcott

#Cities #Los Angeles #Seven

I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.
-- Amy Adams

#Kids #Ego #Seven

Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.
-- Anjelica Huston

#Emotional #Six #Seven

The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.
-- Anne Lamott

#Differences #Pages #Seven

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
-- Antonia Fraser

#Numbers #Lucky #Seven

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Real #Agents #Seven

Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Children #Seven #Minutes

I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
-- Barkhad Abdi

#War #Years #Seven

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.
-- Benh Zeitlin

#Want #Seven

Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.
-- Betty Shabazz

#Six #Seven #Threat

Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese ...
-- Billie Burke

#Age #Cheese #Seven

If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head.
-- Brady Udall

#Years #Would Be #Seven

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
-- C. S. Forester

#Book #Princess #Seven

I eat five to seven meals a day and a couple of protein shakes
-- Casper Van Dien

#Couple #Meals #Seven

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman

#One Day #Needs #Seven

I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
-- Charles de Lint

#Book #Writing #Seven

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.
-- Charles E. McKenzie

#Bulls #Bucks #Seven

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.
-- Chili Davis

#Curves #Knuckles #Seven

That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase.
-- Christian Lacroix

#Ideas #Clubs #Seven

I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.
-- Christopher Moore

#Breakfast #Pants #Seven

Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.
-- Darrell Huff

#Cold #Week #Seven

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
-- David Copperfield

#Years #Cameras #Seven

And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.
-- Davy Jones

#Las Vegas #Three #Seven

I have four children and I have seven grandkids.
-- Dick Van Dyke

#Children #Four #Seven

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
-- Dorothy Parker

#Writing #Seven

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
-- Douglas Coupland

#Sin #Conflict #Seven

Seven days without love makes one weak.
-- Drake

#Seven #Weak

I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.
-- Ecaterina Szabo

#Gymnastics #Years #Seven

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
-- Eduard Shevardnadze

#Years #Seven #Ministers

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.
-- Edward Burns

#Years #Seven #Woody

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
-- Eli Wallach

#Firsts #Seven #Magnificent

All of my marriages lasted seven years.
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Years #Seven

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.
-- Errol Flynn

#Six #Film #Seven

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.
-- Francine Prose

#Long #Seven #Week

I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.
-- Gloria Stuart

#Years #Quitting #Seven

I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I don’t want to know the time when I’ll have to come to the studio even earlier.
-- Grace Kelly

#Want #Six #Seven

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.
-- Grace Paley

#Pages #Seven #Novel

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.
-- Graham Nash

#Song #Six #Seven

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
-- Hannah Whitall Smith

#Wall #Seven #Jericho

What are we going to blow up?" Morgan sighed happily and slapped joss on the back. " Kid... you just said my seven favorite words.
-- Heather Brewer

#Kids #Blow #Seven

I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
-- Jack Palance

#Years #Film #Seven

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Book #Way #Seven

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.
-- James Coburn

#Events #Kind #Seven

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.
-- James Parton

#Business Success #Seven #Fidelity

Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
-- Jasper Fforde

#Book #Awards #Seven

I have the death sentence in seven genres.
-- Jasper Fforde

#Seven #Genre #Death Sentence

I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.
-- Jeff Dunham

#Guy #Seven #Said

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.
-- Jena Malone

#Writing #Seven

I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
-- Jerry Falwell

#Midnight #Week #Seven

In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.
-- Jerry McNerney

#Republican #Seven #Lost

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.
-- Jerry Reed

#Kids #Six #Seven

I went to sleep away camp seven years in a row. I was such a pro.
-- Joe Jonas

#Sleep #Years #Seven

I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.
-- Joe Montana

#Six #Seven #Concussions

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance
-- John Lanchester

#Preparation #Planning #Seven

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.
-- John M. McHugh

#Seven #Figures #Staggering

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
-- John Powell

#Poverty #Seven #Neighborhood

When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.
-- Jon Fishman

#Eight #Zeppelins #Seven

Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.
-- Judith Hooper

#Facts #Wonder #Seven

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
-- Julia Child

#Years #Seven #Thirty

You are not only the solar spectrum with the seven luminous colours, but the sun himself, that illumines, warms, and revivifies! This is what you are, and I am the lowly woman that adores you.
-- Juliette Drouet

#Sun #Seven #Adore

In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'
-- Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

#India #Seven #Mathematics

Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number...
-- Junot Diaz

#Numbers #Twenties #Seven

If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself.
-- Justin Theroux

#Years #Tvs #Seven

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- Ive got to have them.
-- Ken Dodd

#Laughing #Seven #Minutes

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.
-- Kristina McMorris

#Earth #Upside Down #Seven

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Years #Firsts #Seven

I expected to have one husband and seven babies. Instead I had seven husbands and one living baby.
-- Lana Turner

#Baby #Husband #Seven

Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.
-- Lance Armstrong

#France #Truth Is #Seven

I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Years #Seven #Said

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.
-- Lee Konitz

#Sound #Want #Seven

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Cat #People #Seven

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Smart #Feet #Seven

Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.
-- Louise Andrews Kent

#Years #Mind #Seven

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.
-- Lukas Foss

#Creative #Age #Seven

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Stupid #Seven #Fourteen

I’ve been dead for seven years, that’s as warm as they get.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Years #Seven

How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.
-- Melina Marchetta

#Eye #Heart #Seven

Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.
-- Michael Biehn

#Bulls #Seven #Riders

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.
-- Michael Lewis

#Years #Different #Seven

Let's put it this way, I like number seven.
-- Michael Schumacher

#Numbers #Way #Seven

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Seven #Frightened

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.
-- Moss Hart

#Morning #Hearing #Seven

I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.
-- Nadya Suleman

#Years #Trying #Seven

I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.
-- Naz?m Hikmet

#Children #Long #Seven

If I say, 'Oh nice,' about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Nice #Seven #Wells

We are on a planet of seven billion people, five billion mobile subscriptions.
-- Paul Conneally

#Technology #People #Seven

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.
-- Paul Weyrich

#Average #Voters #Seven

The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.
-- Peter Drury

#Football #Yards #Seven

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
-- Phyllis Bottome

#Cows #Rich #Seven

There's no set futures, only the one we make." - Marina / Seven
-- Pittacus Lore

#Seven

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.
-- Pras Michel

#Homeless #Seven #Paychecks

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
-- R. Lee Ermey

#Fifteen #Hours #Seven

Kaylee, you're adding two and two and coming up with seven.
-- Rachel Vincent

#Two #Seven #Kaylee

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.
-- Ray Bradbury

#Teenager #Twenties #Seven

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.
-- Retief Goosen

#Winning #Games #Seven

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.
-- Robert Breault

#Seven #Made #Mankind

Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.
-- Robert Charles Wilson

#Believe #One Day #Seven