Three Quotes - Page 128

All theorems have three names: a French name, a German name, and a Russian name, each nationality having claimed to discover it first. Once in a while there's an English name, too, but it's always Newton.

Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.

If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

Three cheers for Sheriff Wilson. - Bucky Dideron

I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice.

I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.

It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.

In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught. On the contrarty, most offenders had been charged with and/or convicted of from one to three victims. In the interviews I have done, they have admitted to roughly 10 to 1,250 victims. What was truly frightening was that all the offenders had been reported before by children, and the reports had been ignored.

Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.

I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a Jimmy Buffett concert.