Weekend Words: Five
On October 5th, the Carnegie International — the biennial that's not a biennial but arrives every three to five years — opened in Pittsburgh after waiting the limit, five years after its last version in 2008.
On October 5th, the Carnegie International — the biennial that’s not a biennial but arrives every three to five years — opened in Pittsburgh after waiting the limit, five years after its last version in 2008.
“One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”
—Thomas Wolfe
“Five minutes! Zounds I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!”
—Hannah Cowley, The Belle’s Stratagem (1780)
“The secret of successful managing [in baseball] is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.”
—Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel, The Gospel According to Casey
“Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”
—Pablo Picasso
“Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him doth fade,
But doth suffer sea-change
Into something rich and strange.”
—Shakespeare, The Tempest
“A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.”
—George Moore
“Five enemies of peace inhabit with us — avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”
—Francesco Petrarch
“Five to one, baby, one in five,
No one here gets out alive…
They got the guns, but we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah, we’re taking over.”
—Jim Morrison, “Five to One”
“I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn’t come in until half-past five.”
—Henny Youngman
