Quarter Quotes
439 Quarter quotes by 391 unique authors
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Well it's not that I HATE them, but honestly if I saw two homeless people begging for money, one white and one black, and I…
— Zach Braff
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I think finals are there to be won, you know the feeling of losing a final is really bad. I prefer to lose a semi-final,…
— Didier Drogba
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Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain…
— Louis Zamperini
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It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it…
— Bill Bryson
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... and over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical) arts. Messengers arrived…
— John Gibson Paton
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Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Matches don't come any bigger than FA Cup quarter-finals
— Neil Warnock
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People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a…
— Christopher Brookmyre
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PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or happy,…
— Jonathan Moyo
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It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the…
— Spider Robinson
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It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional…
— Francis William Aston
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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all…
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale.…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little…
— John Vianney
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Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and…
— J F C Fuller
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Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone? That way, he learns that "wishing" isn't going to save out national…
— Jack Handey
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Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.
— John Shelton Reed
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I'm not good with time. Like, if I ask you the time and you say A quarter to 2, I wouldn't know. Why can't you…
— Nicole Polizzi
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Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those…
— Emanuel Lasker
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I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I…
— Bill Cosby
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You know why dogs have no money? No pockets. 'Cause they see change on the street all the time and it's driving them crazy. When…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something…
— Marco Rubio
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Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.
— Alex Comfort
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At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to…
— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Who Wrote These Quarter Quotes
391 authors contributed a total of 439 Quarter Quotes, led by these top contributors: