#seven

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. ↗

— Orville Wright

#already #been #even #first #flight

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. ↗

— Steven Wright

#bad #bad luck #busted #five #get

Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#college #daughters #divorced #facilities #her

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#first #five #four #i #light

When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#ago #austria #come #continent #cultures

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#apparently #day #devoid #earth #naturally

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#give #go #i #keep #like

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

— Helen Hayes

#hardest #life #seventy #ten #those

I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#am #been #celibate #i #i am