Quarters Quotes
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
Candice Olson -
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
Rita Mae Brown
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[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
Mike Tyson -
In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
W. P. Kinsella -
I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.
Catherine Ndereba -
We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.
Phil Jackson -
I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.
Dayna Devon -
Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.
William H. Macy
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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.
Scott Westerfeld -
To return to levels consistent with price stability in coming quarters.
Ben Bernanke -
The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.
Chalmers Johnson -
You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.
William Cavendish -
I'm doing a lot more cardio now. I want to be able to run and run and run and not get tired, you know, be able to play at a high level for all four quarters. I like to bike a lot and do some 300s here and there. Really, I love to bike though. I like being outside and moving around, seeing the good scenery around Miami and such.
Brandon Spikes -
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
William H. Gass
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I tell everybody that I'm a quatre-sexual: I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.
Merv Griffin -
We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.
David M. Raup -
Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy -
Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.
William H. Macy -
Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
Myers decided to take over the first three quarters. He was pretty tough to stop.
Ed McClanahan
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It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.
Spider Robinson -
We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment.
Gary Pruitt -
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
Thomas Hardy -
Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor
Minnie Maddern Fiske