The trombone is not meant for romance. . . any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.
If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.
All errors are just ordinary, what extraordinary sin can you commit? All the sins have been committed already. You cannot find a new sin - it is very difficult, it is almost impossible to be original about sin. For millions of years people have committed everything that can be committed. To be thrown in hell for your sins. Now this is too much! you can throw a man into hell for five years, ten years, twenty years, fifty years. If a man has lived for seventy years you can throw him there for seventy years. and that is if you only believe in one life. It is good that they believe in one life.
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.
Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.
I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.
Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them.
I have a weird sense that people ten years younger than me don't own a radio, or maybe they own a radio, but they don't call it a radio.
Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.
Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, and am I the only one that's disappointed? Still no superheros.
The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.
On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.