ten Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about ten.
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”
- Washington Irving
“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.”
- Mae West
“Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.”
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
“Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.”
- Benjamin Disraeli
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
- Jane Austen
“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.”
- Charles Kettering
“I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.”
- Gunter Grass
“He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.”
- John Bunyan
“My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out.”
- Emilie de Ravin
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”
- Barbra Streisand