Quarters Quotes

540 Quarters quotes by 488 unique authors

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. — Gioachino Rossini
From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look… — Will Self
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. — George Bernard Shaw
But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker,… — William Tecumseh Sherman
I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games. — Sarah Silverman
When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone… — Richard Simmons
You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business… — James Sinegal
You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you! — Alex Trebek
Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters. — Mike Tyson
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. — Simone Weil
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection. — Morris West
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in… — E. O. Wilson
Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? — Steven Wright
In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the… — Stephen Lang
Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in… — Douglas Rushkoff
If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions… — Tom Robbins
I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of… — Haven Kimmel
Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office… — Martha Beck
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in… — William S. Burroughs
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy… — Jack London
Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.… — Ambrose Bierce
works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift… — Rebecca West
A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It… — Amy Lowell
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter? — Thomas Hardy

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488 authors contributed a total of 540 Quarters Quotes, led by these top contributors: