Frases de Tenía

Ten, I thought, he's definitely a ten

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.

You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that.

Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.

I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day...

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.

Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.

Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.

A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. "”Joe Bunch

It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.

... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.

I keep a lot to myself. Thinking a million things while speaking ten things.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.

Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice.

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.

And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

What a childhood I had - I was ten years old when I found out Alpo was dog food.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

You are ten times more likely to get hit by a car when the driver is aiming for you.

If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

I can't rate myself, but if you ask Russell, I'm sure he'd give me a ten out of ten.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

I went to a 7-11 and asked for a 2x4 and a box of 3x5's. The clerk said, "ten-four."

Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning.

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy.

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.

TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

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

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

Donald Trump would never belong to a church that required a ten percent hit. He's too smart.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create...

It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.

The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.

Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems ...

Howie's doctor told him to lose ten pounds, and since Howie's been on a diet he's gained three.

Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be massive influences

At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

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

Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow, the drummer relaxes in between shows with his cinnamon girl.

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

When you're in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have.

I will lose twenty pounds like... I can lose ten... I have. I can lose ten in a week and a few days.

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.

Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe.

You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.

The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.

For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!

and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.

My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

I want to make music that I know that ten years from now, you can put it on and say "This is a great record".

No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.

Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.

Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word.

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

I don't talk down to kids. Usually someone my age who's talking to a ten or twelve year old is yelling at them.

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house...so he moved.

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.

I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!

A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.

Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music.

Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running.

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.

[The wall will be] ten feet taller. And every time they [Mexicans] protest, it`s going to go up a little bit higher.

Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.

There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.

Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke.

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

I exercise a lot and I love it. I'm fine. But you know, I'd like to be alive in ten years, that'd be my first priority.

Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.

You can't fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds , but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with my kick.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?

I was never over-weight, just under-tall. The correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.

Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

I always drew. I don't remember a time when I didn't draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now.

The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?

Since I met him ten years ago there hasn't been a day that I didn't think of George Burns. And I didn't think of him again today.

I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.

It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.

If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.

And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!

I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.

I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there.

When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party; I've lived the life of ten men. I lived all my dreams and more.

A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.

We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.

I have a weird sense that people ten years younger than me don't own a radio, or maybe they own a radio, but they don't call it a radio.

I won’t apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience.” “From all indications, you’ve acquired enough for ten men.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.

Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,"”when?

I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly.

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.

Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.

When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.

Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

The difficulty of explaining "˜why I am a Catholic' is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.

I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape.

I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.

In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That's a law of nature, to be known henceforth as "˜Harshaw's Law.

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.

Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.

There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

This new condition, this unwilled silence, had fallen over him ten days ago. The day Cass had gone into the hospital. The day she had fallen into a coma.

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thousand men.

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.

Winter is ruthless and sometimes sullen and murderous. The wild winter North has gulped ten thousand summers down nor left a froth of sunshine on its lips.

A safe rule where Jewish propaganda is concerned is to multiply or divide their figures by ten, at least, before accepting them as the basis for discussion.

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

Toyota has announced it will start integrating Microsoft technology into their vehicles. It's perfect for the person who wants a car that crashes every ten minutes.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

It's a good thing wrinkles don't start 'til you're 50ish. So, wrinkles, then Happy 60th, and then Just think, you'll be 70 In just those short years, numbering ten

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

I know it sounds corny, but I'd love to improve people's lives, especially socially"¦ Making the world more open is not an overnight thing. It's a ten-to-fifteen-year thing.

Me di cuenta que si iba a lograr algo en la vida debía ser agresivo. Tenía que buscarlo. Yo se que el miedo es un obstáculo para muchas personas, pero para mí es una ilusión

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.

Me incliné sobre ella y recorrí la piel de su vientre con la yema del dedo. Bea dejó caer los párpados, los ojos y me sonrió, segura y fuerte. Tenía diecisiete años y la vida en los labios