Three Quotes - Page 14

I just simply am not a dater. I think I have been on three official dates in my life. They are like job interviews and I refuse to be romantically employed.

There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".

The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

One martini is just right. Two martinis are too many. Three martinis are never enough.

You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.

If I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing.

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.

I saw The Rev the other night and he was on like four different things. He was like, Dude, Ive been gone for three days!

Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now, And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day, Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.