Five Years Quotes:

If you want to know where you'll be five years from now, listen to what you're saying about yourself today.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Years, Want, Today, Five Years

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

- Hokusai

topic: Artist, Years, Giving, Five Years

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

- David Campese

topic: Years, Firsts, Rugby, Five Years

Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

- Glenn Hoddle

topic: Mean, Player, Years, Premier League, Five Years

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

- Roy Lichtenstein

source: Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

topic: Five Years

If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.

- Thomas Beecham

topic: Years, Age, Four, Five Years

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

- Eric Alterman

topic: Lying, Cutting, Ideas, Five Years, Recessions

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

- Pauline Collins

topic: Teacher, Years, Acting, Five Years

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

- Sharon Creech

topic: Children, Real, Philosophical, Five Year Olds, Five Years

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

- Kenny Chesney

topic: Thinking, Years, Balance, Five Years

Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.

- Russ Carnahan

topic: Years, Oil, Pumps, Energy Policy, Five Years

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

- Jenna Fischer

source: Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

topic: New Year, Thoughtful, Thinking, Planners, Five Year Plans

It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don't like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result.

- Joseph Fiennes

topic: Thinking, Years, Long, Five Years

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

- Laurent Fabius

source: "Chirac allies storm ahead in poll". cnn.com. June 10, 2002.

topic: Strong, Years, Want, Five Years

I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.

- Rob Portman

topic: Strong, Years, Proud, Strong Economy, Five Years

One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.

- Chance the Rapper

topic: Song, Years, People, Fedoras, Five Year Olds

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

- Mary Roach

topic: Years, People, Lasts, Five Years

I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

- Tania Raymonde

source: "Tania Raymonde Talks MTV’s DEATH VALLEY and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 11, 2011.

topic: Years, Four, Grew, Five Years

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

- Karrine Steffans

topic: Book, Writing, School, Five Year Olds, Five Years

I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.

- Sonja Sohn

source: "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

topic: Fall, College, Years, Go Hard, Five Years

I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.

- Shepard Smith

topic: Years, News, Five Years

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

- Alan Vega

topic: Couple, Years, Able, Five Years

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

- Burt Ward

topic: Maturity, Years, Balance, Last Five Years, Finding The Right Person

If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

- Dominic West

source: "Dominic West: 'People seem to think I'm Satan'" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

topic: Years, Next, Auditions, Five Years

I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.

- Nik Wallenda

source: "Niagara Falls tightrope walk: Nik Wallenda succeeds". www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

topic: Years, Three, World, Five Years, Grand Canyon

A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.

- Shailene Woodley

topic: Thinking, Years, Secret, Cast Members, Five Years

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

- Barry McGuire

topic: Italian, Years, Stealing, Five Years

I moved on from the whole 'Playboy' thing five years ago and really never looked back. I'm not one of those girls who goes back to all the parties and things.

- Holly Madison

topic: Girl, Party, Years, Five Years, I Moved On

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.

- Mark Zandi

topic: Maturity, Years, Three, Dodging Bullets, Five Years

The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

topic: Horse, Doors, Years, Five Years

To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Thinking, Eight, Years, Five Years

I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

- Enoch Powell

topic: Russia, Years, Challenges, Soviet Russia, World Domination

They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

- Lea DeLaria

source: "Box Lunch". Comedy album by Lea DeLaria, May 5, 1997.

topic: Gay, Men, Vegas, Chapel, Five Years

The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

- Larry Wall

source: Usenet article, 1998.

topic: Order, Years, Court, Perl, Five Years

One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.

- William Stanley Jevons

topic: Years, Giving, Pounds, Five Years

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

- David Gemmell

topic: War, Years, Handy, Five Years

I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Editing, Years, Judging, Five Years

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

- Carl Reiner

source: "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

topic: Couple, War, Humorous, Operators, Five Years

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Brother, Children, Men, Five Years

It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.

- Ray Nagin

source: "Ray Nagin Takes Swipe at NYC 9/11 Rebuilding Efforts". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. August 26, 2006.

topic: New York, Years, Cities, Five Years

I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.

- John Prescott

topic: Journey, Order, Years, Five Years

Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.

- Liberty Ross

topic: Girl, Years, Use, Five Years

I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.

- James Nares

topic: Daughter, Running, Hurt, Five Year Olds, Swimming Pool

Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

- Bernie Mac

topic: Passion, Years, People, Five Year Olds, Making People Laugh

The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.

- Derek Tangye

source: "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.

topic: Morning, Sadness, Years, Five Years

Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween , possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. ... [W]ith the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. ... In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended - Directed By Joe Chappelle.

- James Berardinelli

source: "Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net. 1995.

topic: Halloween, Years, Scare, Carpenter, Horrific

I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).

- Lloyd deMause

source: Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

topic: Years, Political, Training, Five Years, Being Ignorant

One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.

- Judy LaMarsh

topic: Years, Age, Battle, Qualifying, Ultimate Success

Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.

- David Bottoms

topic: Fall, Sleep, Self, Five Years

The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Past, White, Jumping, Secret Service, Five Years