The only instance where five purely-negative words had had a highly positive, motivational impact are Winston Churchill’s, “Never, Never, Never, Never Give-up.

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the ’50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well… Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was...

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.

I’ve written 16 children’s books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

I’ve got two brothers and two sisters, so there’s five of us and we’re all very close, which is cool.

30 years and 55 pictures – not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don’t remember the text – instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.

‘The Last Five Years’ was a musical in 2002, and it’s a deconstruction of a marriage.

I think The Police made five great records and then called it a day. They went out on top.

The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn’t come home.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests – I bought five sets.

For the first time in my life I feel important. I’d like to have five babies.

The whole being-in-a-room interview thing, at a junket or a film festival, is very inhuman. You meet the person, have five or 10 minutes to talk, and it’s not like a conversation.

What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and...

I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I’m totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli,...

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as...

I started writing ‘Brick Lane’ when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

When I was five. That’s when I started to love film.

I’m luckier than my grandfather, who didn’t move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate...

Well, I’ve just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

I smashed my tailbone and couldn’t sit for five years, and I broke my clavicle because I thought I was a great surfer, and of course, I could be a great snowboarder, too. Man, was...

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they’re 21.

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we’d stay right even.

For the last five years I’ve been in the production business.

The body is something absolutely miraculous. It’s amazing, the five senses.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

‘Polytechnique’ changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn’t work on anything else but ‘Polytechnique.’

Without bragging, I’ve been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.

Five years from now I’m probably going to look back on the things I’m doing and cringe.

When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ for five months, and my high school was not happy. My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were...

About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet.

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.

I don’t have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn’t do my job.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

I’ve been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.