Three Quotes - Page 46

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.

A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.

Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts.

Three-hundred million years from now, the only thing that will matter is whether you're in Heaven or in Hell.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.

Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.

[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.

If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.

Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.

I want someone who is open-minded, dedicated to whatever she is doing and isn't afraid to say I love you. As for looks, she shouldn't have three heads. I want a regular human being.

I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up.

I'm post-menopausal. I have nothing but time. Post-menopausal do not sleep. You obviously don't know one. We get about three hours of sleep a night and the rest of the time we have to do something productive with our time.