I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.
Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it's all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room.
Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. When my mother explained it, I kept after her: What are you saying? What do you mean? I couldn't believe it. It was astonishing. It was like--here's the man who makes all the trees. Then I wanted to be a writer, because, I suppose, it seemed the closest thing to being God.
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes.
I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.
I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.
I see myself fighting for about six more fights and I'll be done and happy with my career.
Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?
I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.
I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.
Ive had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.
Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.
. . . it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.
Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven hundred miles without taking off his hat. He probably will not even mention this flight, which a bare twenty-five years ago would have meant wearing leather jacket and helmet and goggles and risking his neck every minute of the way.
Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.
People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today. ' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.