#five

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#everyone #five #gadget #immortal #lasts

I can never sit still for five minutes. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#i #i can #minutes #never #sit

If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#books #done #everything #five #i

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? ↗

— Harold Pinter

#about #afford #earth #five #forget

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#character #characters #down #five #like

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#best #best work #date #do your best #else

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#after #because #bit #career #disillusioned

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#class #curate #five #i #kent

We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses. ↗

— Jon Porter

#done #fired #first-hand #five #front

I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record. ↗

— Rob Portman

#balanced #balanced budget #budget #deficits #die