Ten Quotes

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years.

I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.