Seven Quotes

• In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Important
  • Society
  • Past

• I have the death sentence in seven genres.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Death
  • Sentence
  • Genres

• It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.

  

  William Petty
  • Quantity
  • Commodity
  • Grain

• In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers.

  

  Emily Rodda
  • Earth
  • Special
  • Ancient

• When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.

  

  Jonas Blue
  • Years
  • Being
  • Musician

• I think he'll like it a little better at 6 1/2 furlongs, seven, or a mile. He's improving. He's a Storm Cat, so he's had a few attitude issues.

  

  D. Wayne Lukas
  • Seven
  • Mile
  • Furlongs

• I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Seven

• When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • Week
  • Afternoon

• A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Literature
  • Accounts
  • Biographies

• Tragically, two years ago, we came once more to realize that we had let our guard down. We became lost in our hubris and learned once more the terrible price that must be paid for our failures. In that accident, we not only lost seven colleagues, we lost seven friends.

  

  Charles Camarda
  • Friends
  • Lost
  • Accident

• I told myself I'd do well by using the experience I gained during my seven years as Big Bang. In my mind, the executive producer is the person that is in charge of everything up to the point that the album comes out. So not just the music but also the music video, album artwork, photographs, and even the material the album itself would be made out of.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Mind
  • Photograph
  • Producers

• Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • Thinking
  • Care
  • Failure

• There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Water
  • Doe
  • Holes

• My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

  

  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
  • Mom
  • Wanted
  • Guitar

• I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Why
  • Business
  • Rich

• If you sold a million records, the only way you could be disappointed is if the guy down the street sold seven million. But you've got to start dodging bullets once you've sold that many records, because everybody wants to kill you. We're not in that position. We can still be very successful and not have to worry about wearing bulletproof vests.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Guy
  • Worry
  • Successful

• For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • People
  • Bed
  • Horrible

• Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because I don't like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Men
  • Seven
  • Six

• Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Attention
  • Week
  • Agree

• I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Iceberg

• In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • War
  • Education
  • Alone

• I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Kind
  • Week
  • Speed

• Whenever anyone finds out there are seven kids in my family, the imagine my mom and dad having sex.

  

  Rachel DeWoskin
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Mom

• I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Today
  • Enjoy
  • Firsts

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