Four Quotes

• This dinner is so nice. The competition (at the auction) is always tough, especially with the home in Mexico that has been donated the last four years by Anne and Jack Kennedy and all the other things. It's really about great people having a great time for a great cause.

  

  Nancy Anderson
  • Great
  • Competition
  • Dinner

• My mother had me on four times on TV show 'To Tell The Truth'. Four times. Only once as a contestant, but they had a bunch of kids on at the beginning of some shows, playing with toys or things like that.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Kids
  • Truth
  • Mother

• Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Film
  • Week
  • Chains

• You should sit,” Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy. Sascha stared at him. “I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me incapable of standing upright.” “It makes me incapable of reason.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Talking
  • Mercy
  • Pregnancy

• I love what I do. But I want to go home, just for four days, then I'll get back on the road again.

  

  V V Brown
  • Home
  • Want
  • Road

• Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Born
  • Four
  • Would Be

• Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Long
  • Waiting
  • Luck

• There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • People
  • Four
  • Great Beatles

• She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Rain
  • Darkness
  • Inches

• Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmer), defined by the past imperfect, the present insufficient, and the future absolutely perfect.

  

  Amrom Harry Katz
  • Four
  • Report
  • Tenses

• The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.

  

  William C. Somerville
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Years

• However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Agreement
  • Islands
  • Abe

• Different parts, when they come together, it creates something new. And that’s what Can is. It’s not the sum of us four – it’s something new.

  

  Irmin Schmidt Can
  • New
  • Four
  • Parts

• Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • She
  • Gifts
  • Shirley Temple

• In the beginning God said, the four-dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric, second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light, and it was good. And on the seventh day he rested.

  

  Michio Kaku
  • Light
  • Four
  • Divergence

• [On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Friends
  • Dog
  • Intervention

• My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.

  

  Keith Morris Black Flag
  • Song
  • Band
  • Ideas

• Four guys go out and four guys go in like the storm troopers in the Star War movies.

  

  Chris Spielman
  • Guys
  • Four
  • Troopers

• At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

  

  Ruth Gordon
  • Care
  • Looks
  • Lying

• I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Important
  • Film
  • Fifty

• Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.

  

  Page Hamilton
  • College
  • Band
  • Gang

• The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Taken
  • Fire
  • Faces

• When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Children
  • Moments
  • Motherhood

• Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

  

  William Merritt Chase
  • Life
  • Four
  • Aging

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