#six

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#books #confident #continued #even #eventually

It's been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can't believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything. ↗

— Brett Favre

#anything #back #been #believe #different

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century! ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#early #early sixties #fifties #how #last

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line. ↗

— John Byng

#enemy #engage #form #going #great

I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York. ↗

— James Caan

#believe #certain #certain way #develop #grow

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. ↗

— John Cage

#boring #discovers #eight #eventually #four

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it. ↗

— William Feather

#applause #because #bound #gets #himself

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous. ↗

— Michael Caine

#barber #became #become #david #did

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. ↗

— Truman Capote

#eleven #honors #i #lovely #sixteen

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#going #hour #hours #how #last