Quotes of: Five Keyword

Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago

The Hamlet

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

Immortal Beloved

The four years I spent in college were the best five years of my life.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.

Murder at Fenway Park

I've done nothing for the past five years but try to be the hero who protects her. The problem? Heroines don't need protecting.

Maybe Someday

It was a night where the rogue drow felt tiny, and yet grand, a part of something ancient, eternal, and as vast as his imagination and as warm as the love among these five freinds surrounding him ...

Night of the Hunter

Night is the sleep of seven wax moths Dawn is the singing of five mermaids Noon is the scratching of three field mice Dusk is the shadow of a crow

Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems

If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.

The Last Window-Giraffe: A Picture Dictionary for the over Fives

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Limitations

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Lady Middleton resigned herself... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every day.

Sense and Sensibility

I did not approve of your action—I was merely congratulating myself. What you mistook for clapping was merely me giving myself multiple high fives.

This Book Title is Invisible

Monsieur, you must be mad! Box Five can never be had For money, love or the world ...

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?

The Queen of the Damned

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days

I asked if she wanted kids. She said her clock is ticking. I said, That’s because I set it five minutes ahead when you weren’t looking.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I wish I had five wives, one for each day of the workweek. This would leave me the weekends to enjoy time with my two mistresses.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

Wizard of Ads

But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.

When You Were Here

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

War and Peace

At a hundred and twenty five miles per hour, with the wind rushing in his face, darkness around him, he is alone in the universe, but then, Zeb has been alone all his life.

The Warrior