Four Quotes

• 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

• We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

  

  Bruce Randall Hornsby Ambrosia
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Play

• 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

• The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Discovery
  • Creator

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

  

  Chris Spielman
  • Guys
  • Four
  • Troopers

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Agreement
  • Islands
  • Abe

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • People
  • Four
  • Great Beatles

• [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

• 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

• But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Moving
  • Shows
  • Results

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

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Giving
  • Education
  • Socialist

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

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Rain
  • Darkness
  • Inches

• When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Four
  • Continuum

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