Top 570 Ten Quotes

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
Nelson A. Miles
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
Guy Kawasaki
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you’re grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.
Mike Mills
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it’s ten to one if they hang long together.
Douglas William Jerrold
I’ve always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that’s why I wanted to do comedy.
Dane Cook
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
Quincy Jones
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
Coretta Scott King
There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.
Martha Gellhorn
When there’s not ten feet of snow on the ground, I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, ‘Hey, dummy,’ or ‘Hey, Mayhem.’
Dean Winters
When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I’ve left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.
Tom Stoppard
I’m in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things.
Joshua Bell
Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What’s out there?
Kirk Cameron
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Scott Adams
As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.
Christopher Nolan
I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.
John Hench
I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer’s block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
A. E. van Vogt
The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.
Steve Alford
Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
Kangana Ran
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This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.
Cyrano de Bergerac
I’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
Vera Wang
That movie ‘Hellraiser 2’ – to me, that was the most evilest display of evil I’ve ever seen. I watched that movie ten times because I couldn’t believe that each character became more evil than the other.
Rza
There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, ‘Story of a Girl’, was the fourth book I wrote.
Sara Zarr
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Edgar Degas
I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.
Harvey Mackay
War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
Beilby Porteus
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.
Elizabeth I
When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years.
Lou Gramm
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
Peter Greenaway
My major influence was my ten years older sister.
Willa Ford
I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I’ve taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.
Michael Gambon
I haven’t slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
Mitch Hedberg
The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment ‘Roseanne’ dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!
Roseanne Barr
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
Jules Verne
In 1981, after ten years in Basel, I returned to the United States to continue my research on the immune system at the Center for Cancer Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where Director Salvador E. Luria provided me with an excellent laboratory.
Susumu Tonegawa
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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my ‘Top Ten’ friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
Julie Burchill
There’s something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.
Paul Reiser
I’ll be sober ten years and married nine soon.
Rob Lowe
I’m sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.
Andrea Arnold
Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people – but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.
Andrew Weil
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Harold Coffin
The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I have a hard time listening to things I’ve recorded. I don’t necessarily go back and enjoy it. Occasionally I’ll have the iPod on shuffle and something will come on. Nine times out of ten I’ll wince and go on to the next one.
Brian d’Arcy James
I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
Morgan Freeman
Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
Stanley Kubrick
I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for t

I made a big family when I was working at ‘Vogue’ for ten years, and I’m still friends with a lot of them.
Carine Roitfeld
Modeling is basically ‘Buy more stuff! Don’t you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!’ If I’d wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
Uma Thurman
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone
I exist on a caffeine level ten.
Jodie Whittaker
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.
Gretchen Rubin
I’m proud of my family, very proud – I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
Dan Shechtman
I’ve been talking to certain wrestlers on the phone lately, and certain female wrestlers that were huge stars ten years ago, and the first thing I ask them is ‘do you still want to work?’ Do they want to talk, or do they want to wrestle or do something else in the business?
Hulk Hogan
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.
Wendy Liebman
Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
Jerry Seinfeld
I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.
Stephen J. Cannell
It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I’ll kick this back in, I don’t need to take this profit share. It’s very cooperative.
John Zorn
We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
Barry McCaffrey
Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there’s rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources.
Debra Granik