#five

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see. ↗

— Phyllis Battelle

#broken heart #cigar #elevator #fat #five

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#army #arrogance #because #been #boring

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#australia #australian #budget #budget film #combined

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#disappear #disappeared #eighty #fifty #forty-five

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#cholera #daily #dying #five #had

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#employee #explanation #five #new #new skills

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards. ↗

— King Farouk

#england #few #five #four #king

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#average #averaging #beginning #built #close

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard. ↗

— Edgar R. Fiedler

#answers #ask #different #economists #five

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#completely #different #different attitude #doing #five