Top 570 Ten Quotes

I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn’t for me. I didn’t give up until about ten days. I don’t think I really told my father. I really didn’t like my father knowing my things were not successful.

During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.

For an actor, you’re rejected eight or ten times a day. All you’ve got to sell is yourself. You’re not selling products, they’re not turning down a car, they’re turning you down. Most people can’t handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn’t stand seeing them hurt like this.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

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

When I got out of school, I lived the myth of Horatio Alger, and my company was on the cover of ‘Fortune’ magazine because it processed over ten percent of NASDAQ’s daily trading volume. I had achieved what I thought was the pinnacle of success in this proud, techno-capitalist country.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

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.

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

The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.

Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn’t believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.

We came from nothing really. One house. Ten people. Even days the lights was off. The worst days was not eating. Surviving off rice and toast.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

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.

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.

I went to the doctor recently and she actually prescribed that I go out for ten minutes a day, I’m so depleted on vitamin D.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

I was a young-un when I got my first million. Then I realized if I got one, I could get two. If I could get two, I could get ten. If I could get ten, I could get a hundred.

You can tell if you’re going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages – if I’m not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we’re looking for completion funds.

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I’m no writer. This is not my calling.

One thing about an artist, it doesn’t matter how much your work sells for in your life, it’s going to sell for ten times more than that after you’re dead, and that’s what you have to protect.

‘Drake and Josh’ was strictly nine to five. We’d go in and know what we were doing, and ‘Superhero Movie’ was just nuttiness every day because there’s a joke every ten seconds.

I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.

I have a big ego, and I’m a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn’t work for me, I tried it… for about ten years.

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. That stuff was heavy.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don’t know the Ten Commandments.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

When an actor even after ten years of experience puts in effort and treats every day of her work as the first day in her career, she becomes an asset.

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it’s writing time, I write.

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there’s no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that’s standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it’s the only thing in the world that hasn’t been overrated.

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

The cool parts – the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as ‘the Vegas of the Middle East’ or ‘the Venice of the Middle East’ or ‘the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert’ – have been built in the last ten years.

After I wrapped ‘Sons of Anarchy,’ I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in Timbuktu.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

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

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It’s the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

The first time I watched a World Cup game was in 2002. That was the first time Senegal had ever qualified for the World Cup, and it was great moment that I will never forget in my life. I was ten years old at the time, and that experience of watching my country in a World Cup is what inspired me to become a footballer.

What people don’t realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you’re being bullied by millions of people constantly.

And what’s fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there’s time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn’t really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

I’ve already lived the lives of ten people. My father’s 87 and still going strong. I think there’s a lovely angel watching over me.

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you’re being taught to think that it’s the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

As a young man you don’t notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.