#five

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. ↗

— Paul Merton

#endured #give #happiest #i #indication

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#become #fan #five #jazz #long

Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#anything #becoming #big #change #do you know

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#agents #another #book #brown #deal

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week. ↗

— Bette Midler

#book #country #five #haul #horse

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class. ↗

— David Miliband

#alone #biggest #britain #class #economies

The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car. ↗

— David Millar

#bike #car #crashed #first #first time

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. ↗

— George Miller

#days #eating #five #food #hungry

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st! ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#always #clever #everything #first #five

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#audience #day #different #different kinds #ever