Ten Quotes

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.

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

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.