Four Quotes

• 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

• 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

• My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Calling

• Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Giving
  • Education
  • Socialist

• 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

• I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • House
  • Steps
  • Late

• I just wanted to do my own thing after The Murderdolls. The Murderdolls were so spread out all across the US that we couldn't just say, "Let's go rehearse." For us we had like four days to rehearse because everyone had to book flights, so we just never got as tight as most bands should be.

  

  Joseph Michael Poole
  • Book
  • Band
  • Should

• [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

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

  

  Chris Spielman
  • Guys
  • Four
  • Troopers

• I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Ideas

• 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

• In the last four months, it's happened three times, just out of the blue, so we have a feeling the retail market is ready to be downtown. The retailers are the ones calling.

  

  John Bacon
  • Feeling
  • Ready
  • Happened

• 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

• 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

• The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Past
  • Tea
  • Four

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Sony and Nickelodeon knew they wanted to create a TV show that was a platform for a band they would have for Sony. They knew what they wanted, and it took two years of auditions and screen tests and countless people coming in and out the door until they finally settled on the four of us.

  

  James Maslow Big Time Rush
  • People
  • Band
  • Doors

• Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Evil
  • Brother
  • Newspapers

• 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

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

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • She
  • Gifts
  • Shirley Temple

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

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Agreement
  • Islands
  • Abe

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