Three Quotes · Page 84

Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious…

— Bill Bailey

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

— Graydon Carter

Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want.

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

You take [mammary] cells, you put them in a dish, and within three days ... they don't make milk. They completely forget.

— Mina Bissell

I didn't go into the Hall of Fame until I was a Hall of Famer. Three times I had been there, I…

— Ken Griffey Jr

I may have been through the pain of childbirth three times, but I'm incredibly nervous about having my upper ear pierced.

— Susanna Reid

There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

— Frederick Lenz

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Generally speaking, you want to put three or four shooters around a dominant center and have him just roll to the basket.

— J. J. Redick

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

— Robert Benchley

There's three 'Silence of the Lambs' movies, and Hannibal Lecter is the through line, but they're not directly connected.

— Ti West

Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to…

— Willem Dafoe

The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.

— Bruce Lee

It's neither appropriate nor responsible if I drastically amend a policy after one, two, or three submissions of opinion.

— Carrie Lam

After Bad English, I made three albums back-to-back that I still think is my best work, but it wasn't meant to be…

— John Waite

I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three…

— Rick Riordan

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten…

— Jo Brand

Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do…

— Charlie Murphy

I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll…

— Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my…

— James Gould Cozzens

The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance.

— Thomas Marshburn

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three…

— Alison Gopnik

A company finds its destiny by answering three questions: 'Who are we?,' 'What do we stand for?,' and 'How do we serve?,'

— Tom Chappell

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

— Anatole Broyard

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

— Sherman Alexie

I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to…

— Felicity Jones

My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our…

— Anonymous

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me…

— Brittany Snow

The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Saturday, and the Muslims gave Him Friday. God has a three-day weekend.

— George Carlin

When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime.

— Eric Idle

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story…

— Barry Manilow

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.

— Thomas de Quincey

What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families that…

— Craig T. Nelson

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a…

— Henry A. Wallace

One things guys have to remember is consistency... You can't make up for three years of eating poorly in just one workout.

— Apolo Ohno

The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

— Anonymous

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

— Anonymous

I started when I was three years old, doing commercials and Modeling in New York, I liked it so much that I…

— Kirsten Dunst

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

— Terry Pratchett