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Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.

Apparently, six women claim that Arnold Schwarzenegger groped them while working on his movies. Hats off to these women who admit they worked on Arnold's movies.

A pat on the back is six inches away from a kick up the ass.

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

As you get older, it's harder to maintain your weight and to fly through the air for those routines. It's also the lifestyle; you train seven to eight hours a day, five to six days a week.

At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds...it makes ice.

A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead.

Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural. If you accept that, nothing bad can happen. That's why I shut myself away in my six-mat one-room apartment.

Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

But acting is my main profession so it's about finding the right balance. I don't know how, if I went any further with the music, I would manage to do both - I would have to take time off from acting because I couldn't do both at same time. I could do six months on and six months off perhaps. But I'm really proud of the record. I've worked on it for a while and I'm really glad to finally get the album out, having done three EPs prior to its release.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

But you just said you loved me." "I do, Mer. That's the point. I can't make you like me. I can't stand the thought of you hungry or cold or scared. I can't make you a Six.

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest

Can I ask you something personal?” Six inches but I tell everyone eight.

Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

Children don't get cheaper when they turn six.

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item.

Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.

Cut that pizza into six slices instead of eight, I ain't that hungry.

Der, die, das, dem, den, des. German's six ways of saying 'the', like six sexual positions you never knew existed. Hey, I just sprung a boner.

Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

Even little Herley, who couldn't have been more than eight, looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

Everyone's nervous these days. Ronald McDonald has hired six bodyguards, and that's just to protect his buns.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?

Every day is new. It's just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.

Forcing an answer only guarantees that no answer will come out." - Six

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day.

...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.

Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?" "A snowman?

For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.

Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.

Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.