Four Quotes - Page 25

I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in.

We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.

I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs.

It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.

I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.

Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.

Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

I know so many people that I wouldn't have ever met had I not have been travelling since I was fourteen.

I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished four hundred pages and realize the first hundred aren't working.

The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why.

A lot of times I'll doodle on something while I'm doing interviews, because sometimes I'm on the phone for three or four hours and I want to get something going. I'll just start from a scribble, or something that someone else already put on the page.

The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent

Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

What's the worst that could happen?