Ten Quotes

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it's gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on some level, they can cancel each other out.

I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.