«I'm a Gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.»

«Cystoscopies gastroscopies biopsies. They can do three or four of those and make five or six hundred dollars in a single day but we get nothing when we use our time to understand the lives of our patients.»

«A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times»

«An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.»

«Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.»

«I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.»

«Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years»

«Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it»

«And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.»

«Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.»