She was married for seven years to a concrete castle king. She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar and to hear her children sing. So I'd show up about once a week in my faded tight-legged jeans with a backlog full of hobo stories and dilapidated dreams.
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.
I have always been with men who were type A, alpha males. I must exist because I'm with him, I'd think. But what made them what they were also often meant they were lacking empathy genes. And now I know I don't need an alpha male; I need somebody who's interesting. I'm not pretending that I'm 100 percent healed, so I might not know if a man is right for me right away, but it wouldn't take me seven years to figure it out. Maybe a month or two.
A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.
I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.
The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months. . . and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.
When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.
I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.
You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.
But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.
In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.
When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be overlooked. I don't train for my looks.
I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.
When I was seven, I broke my leg playing soccer. Just to feel something.
I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.
I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favorite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.
We are on a planet of seven billion people, five billion mobile subscriptions.
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.