Six famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When I was six all I could think about was ding-dongs and yo-yos.
-- Aaron Paul -
Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
You shouldn't be eating anything that takes six minutes to microwave.
-- Adam Carolla -
I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
-- Adam Driver -
I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.
-- Agnes Denes -
When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.
-- Albert Einstein -
I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
-- Albert Ellis -
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
-- Alexander Calder -
Most Russians don't care whether they are ruled by fascists or communists or even Martians as long as they can buy six kinds of sausage in the store and lots of cheap vodka.
-- Alexander Lebed -
I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.
-- Alicia Vikander -
I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without a break - to complete exhaustion; and while I was in the middle of it I didn't even notice.
-- Alton Tobey -
I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.
-- Andie MacDowell -
It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer,
-- Andrea Hirata -
The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.
-- Andy Behrman -
Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.
-- Anjelica Huston -
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
-- Anthony Burgess -
I have to wear six pairs of speedos when I run.
-- Armie Hammer -
On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.
-- Arnold Gingrich -
I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.
-- Avril Lavigne -
I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
-- Axl Rose -
Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.
-- Bam Margera -
I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.
-- Barry Eisler -
Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count.
-- Barry Magee -
Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss.
-- Beth Ditto -
Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.
-- Betty Shabazz -
... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.
-- Bill Bryson -
I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.
-- Bill Forsyth -
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.
-- Bill Mumy -
I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.
-- Bill Skarsgard -
I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
-- Bo Jackson -
I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.
-- Bob Inglis -
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
-- Bodhidharma -
I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.
-- Brenda Ueland -
That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important
-- Brendan Rodgers -
In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.
-- Bryan Clay -
You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!
-- Bubba Sparxxx -
There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion
-- Caitlin Moran -
We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
-- Calamity Jane -
Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
-- Cardinal Richelieu -
You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?
-- Cassandra Clare -
What happened to you?†Jace looked affronted. “What happened to me?†Alec shook him, not lightly. “You said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?†“A long one?†Jace suggested.
-- Cassandra Clare -
Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.
-- Celinda Lake -
Wanderlei Silva, six feet tall and 205 pounds, boy, until I met you, I didn’t know they could stack crap that high,
-- Chael Sonnen -
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
-- Chaim Potok -
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.
-- Charles Dickens -
Children don't get cheaper when they turn six.
-- Chris Bowen -
I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.
-- Chris Hardwick -
I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.
-- Chrissy Teigen -
Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.
-- Clarence DeMar -
I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.
-- Colin Quinn -
There's nobody I don't like. Maybe in six years it will be different.
-- Courtney Thorne Smith -
Apparently, six women claim that Arnold Schwarzenegger groped them while working on his movies. Hats off to these women who admit they worked on Arnold's movies.
-- Craig Kilborn -
I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
And here's Zivojinovic, six foot six inches tall and fourteen pounds ten ounces.
-- Dan Maskell -
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93.
-- Daniel Boulud -
Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?
-- Darren Shan -
Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.
-- Daryl Hall -
Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.
-- Dave Barry -
Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.
-- David Dinkins -
I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.
-- David Hasselhoff -
And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.
-- David Schwimmer -
On the subject of spinach: divide into little piles. Rearrange again into new piles. After five of six maneuvers, sit back and say you are full.
-- Delia Ephron -
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.
-- Devon Sawa -
In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.
-- Doc Hastings -
I made 60 motion pictures and only wore the sarong in about six pictures, but it did become a kind of trademark.
-- Dorothy Lamour -
I grew really fast. It's true I went from 5'6'' to 6'1'' in six months in 8th grade. By the end of 8th grade, I was 6'1''. Everyone was freaking out.
-- Dot Jones -
Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?
-- Douglas Wilson -
Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!
-- Duane Chapman -
My best moment of 2011 would definitely be the birth of my daughter six weeks ago, on September 25.
-- Dylan Walsh -
I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
-- Ed Koch -
It took me six years to be comfortable modeling a swimsuit.
-- Elizabeth Hurley -
I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.
-- Elliott Smith -
One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.
-- Emiliano Zapata -
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.
-- Erica Jong -
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
-- Ernest Dimnet -
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
-- Ernest Gaines -
Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter. I still can't letter. So, they hired me to draw.
-- Ernie Colon -
I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.
-- Errol Flynn -
Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.
-- Eva Herzigova -
I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
The memory of the American public is about six weeks.
-- F. Lee Bailey -
Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day.
-- Faith Hill -
I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.
-- Famke Janssen -
The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.
-- Felicity Kendal -
Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
-- Frances Conroy -
About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.
-- Frank Iero -
There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six
-- Fred Dinenage -
Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new
-- Freeman Patterson -
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.
-- Gary Lineker