Four Quotes · Page 86

I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.

— Tommy Cooper

I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause"…

— Maggie Stiefvater

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and…

— Joan Jett

25 percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content. 34 percent of bloggers post…

— Erik Qualman

I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was…

— Chris Van Allsburg

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four…

— Paul Theroux

There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.

— Shigeo Shingo

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

— Bela Lugosi

I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. I grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, and attended my first game at Wrigley Field when I was…

— Tom Morello

Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.

— Babe Ruth

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

— James Blunt

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls…

— Charles Spurgeon

I basically walked around with a goiter for four years because I was so afraid of surgery.

— Jennifer Grey

“Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.”

— Veronica Roth

For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect…

— Salma Hayek

I've had four beautiful years at Monchengladbach and owe the club a lot.

— Granit Xhaka

The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of…

— Reince Priebus

Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans…

— Karel Capek

I wanna begin saying a story about my son. I have a four-year old son who loves superheroes from Spider-Man to Iron…

— Djimon Hounsou

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

To win four games in a row at any point in the season for any team in the Premier League is a…

— Kasper Schmeichel

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

— Andrew Dickson White

I wanted to work towards the four majors and the Davis Cup. I know to a lot of people it may not…

— Lleyton Hewitt

there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together.…

— Margaret Atwood

I tried out for the London Olympics, missed it by a little bit, gave it away for a while, and wasn't sure…

— Emma McKeon

I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have…

— Denis Johnson

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage…

— Paloma Faith

The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are…

— Conan O'Brien

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote…

— Caitlin Moran

I've seen a lot of teachers come and go, and you do three or four years, and it's exhausting.

— Cameron Britton

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable,…

— Darynda Jones

We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new…

— Bruce Hornsby

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they…

— David Hockney

As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for…

— Michael Johnson

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

— Kenny Chesney

I'll say - I have four kids! I married a woman when I was 24 years old. She was 13 years my…

— Tony Robbins

Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days,…

— Scott Speedman

So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake…

— Robert Fisk