Five Quotes

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.

Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.

I like getting up early. I get up around five.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.

Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.

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.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.