Four Quotes - Page 28

Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

Holland gets by on a total of four food additives; we have over 1,400.

You see, Firestar? I am even more powerful than Starclan, for I have changed the clans in the forest from four to two..."-The Darkest Hour, Page 227

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

At any minute, I am four minutes from a poncho.

Four inch nails is more like it!

I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor.' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor.'

If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four-leaf clover.

I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.

But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.

Martin [Campbell] is very energetic and precise. He'll on the set like four hours early with a flashlight and I thought, well, I'll certainly try to be very neat about my script like Martin, which I wasn't, but I'm not going to do that bit with the 4AM and the flashlight. I'd love to be able to say I was nervous, but I wasn't. The only time I ever had anxiety it turned out to be asthma.