There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
Herman Melville

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James Baldwin

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
Adolf Galland

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike

That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.
Dale Earnhardt

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
Bob Newhart

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Fiona Apple

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

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.
Christopher Columbus

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.
Les Paul

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
Bruce Barton

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
Magic Johnson

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
Nicholas Sparks

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
James Thurber

For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.
Dennis Rodman

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.
Temple Grandin

I was with one at a time with the other four watching. It was a little uncomfortable, actually. I wouldn't recommend five at once. There's just not enough guy to go around.
Charlie Sheen

Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.
Angus Young