Ten Quotes

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

I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too.

You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.

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

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They can come back and get more-not all they want, but a large piece of it. So you always have the supplemental as a safety valve.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!

Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.