“I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.” MindI CanFourMinutesBabyMaxFussing Author:Hugh Grant
“I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.” ThinkingActorsHoursFourEightDinnerMovieBobMaking LoveBeggingDinner And A Movie Author:Sting
“Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.” HumansHappensLastsNamesFourCuttingImportanceTwentiesFinalsEducationalOccasionsPlusPacksElevenEighteenSixteenDeck Author:David Lodge
“Hey, here's a way to stop suicide bombings - give the Palestinians a bunch of missile-firing Apache helicopters and let them and the Israelis go at each other head to head. Four billion dollars a year to Israel - four billion dollars a year to the Palestinians - they can just blow each other up and leave the rest of us the hell alone.” WayGivingYearsHellFourSuicideDollarsBlowIsraelBillionsBunchHeyPalestinianMissilesBombingFiringHelicopters Author:Michael Moore
“According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.” PersonsWantedFourFoodCookingOilCulinarySaltSaladMadmenMisersVinegarSpendthriftCounsellorsSpanish Proverb Author:John Gerard
“I went to a 7-11 and asked for a 2x4 and a box of 3x5's. The clerk said, "ten-four."” SaidHumorFunnyFourTenBoxesClerks Author:Steven Wright
“Four years ago... no, it was yesterday.” YearsHumorFunnyFourYears AgoYesterdayFour Years Author:Steven Wright
“We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.” YearsLooksPoliticalDemocracyFourWonderfulSpeechAffectionWitNonsensePlusMusic LoveLove And AffectionInspirational Speech Author:David Brinkley
“Every faith uses some kind of tool to understand itself better. Faith seeks understanding. The Western tradition has used philosophy to understand the truths of the faith and you come up with theology. Where as, Islam at a certain point said: we'll use law. There are these four major, developed schools of Islamic jurisprudence.” KindSaidPhilosophyUseSchoolLawUsedCertainUnderstandingFourMajorsTraditionToolsIslamWesternCome UpTheologyIslamicJurisprudence Author:Francis George
“I do believe in reading signs if they're really obvious to you. Things happen. Someone will say something to you today in the morning and then later on that day someone will mention the same thing and then the next day someone will mention it again. There's a reason why three people have said something within twenty four hours.” PeopleIfsBelieveSaidReasonHappensTodayThreeReadingNextHoursMorningFourTwentiesObviousThings HappenReason WhyNext Day Author:Eric Bana
“When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.” YearsAbleFourFoolFour YearsTwins Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.” PeopleNeedsBelieveIdeasWholeI BelieveBlackFourConsumersPairsGoodsConsumerism Author:Paul Auster
“You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.” PersonsWholeHoursFourRocksStageWhole LifeRhythmRock N Roll Author:Patti Smith
“I was writing with different people in Nashville - whoever I could. Eddie Hinton came on the scene about 1963, and about four years later we wrote a ton of songs together. I drifted around, but Eddie and I had some cuts through the '60s and '70s. I went on the road with Kris Kristofferson in 1970.” PeopleWritingYearsDifferentTogetherSongFourCuttingSceneFour YearsDifferent PeoplesNashville Author:Donnie Fritts
“I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!” ThinkingI CanRoomsFourFrontsGood ThingsPainfulJournalistAbout Yourself Author:Anne Hathaway
“I worked with John Maybury on The Jacket and I think he's an extraordinary film-maker. I read the first drafts of this piece when I was working on The Jacket, and we'd so fallen in love with him that we thought he was the only person that should direct this! We wrote poems for him, we sent him champagne and cakes. Four years later he finally read it.” ThinkingShouldYearsFirstsPersonsFilmPiecesFourDirectExtraordinaryFallenMakersCakeFour YearsJacketsChampagne Author:Keira Knightley
“It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories - of which I don't have any left to be honest, I can just remember a sense of tedium - have faded. And teachers that I liked have remained quite vivid. There are three or four left.” LongI CanEnoughFeelingsRealitySchoolRememberThreeLeftMemoriesGoneTeacherFourHonestBeing HonestVividFunny ThingsFadedTediumBad Memories Author:Colin Firth
“Duke is in extremely competitive environment. In my high school, I think I got one B my whole four years. I was used to being the smartest kid in every class I was in, and then I went to Duke and suddenly I was the dumbest kid in every class. Everybody there is up to something.” ThinkingYearsWholeKidsSchoolUsedClassEnvironmentFourHigh SchoolFour YearsDukes Author:Mike Posner
“You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and finally I said "all right, I want you guys to organize a reading and I want you to be there to see how terrible this is not going to work at all", so we had a table like this, and read the script, and it was just great.” WantTryingSaidGuyThreeReadingFourTerribleTablesScriptsI Want YouOrganizeGoing To WorkFreshness Author:Jeff Bridges
“So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you're not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you're also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing.” IfsKindNextChallengesLinesFiveFourWonderfulPeriodsSceneMouthsWorriedComing OutBack And ForthTrenches Author:Glenn Close
“It's really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it's going and the same thing when you are sitting in a theatre, I just rejoice when something unfolds in a way that I'm not conducive.” KnowsWayHardStuffFourPagesPicksSittingOriginalsScriptsTheatreRejoice Author:Susan Sarandon
“Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.” ShouldWomenPayFourBedShould HavePetClosetsTigersGarageJackassesJaguarsHeiressMinkSocialites Author:Paris Hilton
“To be totally candid, it was really born out of a panic attack the summer between my sophomore and junior years, when I realized I wasn't going to graduate in four years unless I somehow managed to glue together all the courses I'd taken. That said, I'm really glad I did it, 'cause it was really fun, and I was able to just take whatever the hell I wanted.” YearsSaidAbleWantedTogetherCoursesFunCausesBornHellTakenFourSummerI RealizedGladFour YearsGraduatesPanicJuniorsGlueCandidPanic AttacksSophomoreJunior Year Author:Ed Helms
“The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone.” KnowsYearsSoulNightGuyDarkFourMy FamilyI RealizedUnhappyFour YearsFloridaOne NightOld FriendsDark NightPayrollDark Night Of The Soul Author:Barry Manilow
“The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.” ChanceFourThirdsCourtFinalsSeedsPresidentialWimbledonNcaa Author:Ralph Nader
“It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.” GivingLooksDreamKidsAnimalFourBaby Author:Paris Hilton
“A lot of the album is made of love songs I've written over the past three or four years that have lasted the test of time. It's probably the thing that connects the songs together other than the sound of my vocals.” YearsMadeTogetherPastSongThreeSoundFourWrittenTestsAlbumsFour YearsVocalOver The PastTest Of Time Author:Vance Joy
“I have the barn, it's just kind of like a studio. Almost all artists have la studio to work in, and that's really what it is. A place to get away. I'll spend maybe four days out there if I can, just completely immersed - like where I don't bathe or brush my teeth for a few days, just get up and make coffee and experiment until the sun goes down.” IfsKindI CanArtistSunFourStudiosCoffeeExperimentsTeethGet UpGet AwayBrushesBarns Author:Andrew Bird
“It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.” YearsBigsJobsGuyThreeHouseMillionsFiveFourPlayerCoupleBasketballBucksBasketball PlayerBig Houses Author:Frank Grillo
“I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.” FirstsJobsNightNextFourWorstQuittingRestaurantsThievesNext DayI QuitDensJanitor Author:Wendell Pierce
“The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.” LongDifferentEndsSometimesPastProcessFourShotsOver 50 Author:Alfonso Cuaron
“When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are terrible, four of them are okay and one is really good. It's hard to say what accounts for the really good one or for the terrible ones, but you end up trying to remanufacture whatever worked for the good one, like eating a tomato. I ate a tomato and the show was good, but that of course is not how it works.” TryingEndsHardPlayShowsFeelingsThreeCoursesFourWeekNew YorkTerribleEatingOkayAccountsEightTomatoes Author:Richard Ayoade
“At my first tournament, about four years ago, I got four twos. Now I have a poker problem. I do win every so often, so that's what keeps me going.” YearsFirstsProblemWinningFourYears AgoFour YearsTournaments Author:Cheryl Hines
“Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.” SometimesPlayFeelingsHappensProcessHoursEmotionFourSkillsApproachPicksFilledThings HappenTrumpets Author:Richard Gere
“The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.” MindFirstsRealSpiritTeacherFourTeachingPersonalityPurePerceptionEssenceThirdsBuddhistRelyInterpretationFourthSuperficialRelianceJudgmentalReal Wisdom Author:Gautama Buddha
“When you do a four-camera sitcom, everything is a little schtickier. It’s not necessarily that you pick up bad habits, but there is just a very specific way of acting that you fall into on those kinds of multicamera shows, and you have to break those habits when you go in to do other things.” WayKindLittlesShowsFallActingBreakFourHabitPicksCamerasSitcomBad Habits Author:Mila Kunis
“It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.” PiecesFourFeetUltimateMetalsArtwork Author:Josh Smith
“It's a stage with four lights clamped to it with walls made out of plywood. And then my name's in the center. It's the type of thing that can be made over and over again. It's not like a Michelangelo sculpture.” MadeLightNamesFourStageWallTypeSculpture Author:Josh Smith
“I have four kids in a private school who have not yet entered college. Their tuition is what keeps me motivated. Life is simple sometimes.” SometimesKidsSchoolLife IsSimpleFourCollegeMotivatedTuitionPrivate SchoolLife Is Simple Author:Guy Kawasaki
“The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.” ThreeFourOne ThingTenBaseballStrikesNflYardsMusic BusinessThree Strikes Author:Zakk Wylde
“It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.” ThinkingWritingWellsBookReadingBitsBreakFivePiecesFourReaderBrilliantInsaneBits And Pieces Author:Markus Zusak
“There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.” YearsEndsReasonThreeFiveFourProudFive YearsWrong Reasons Author:Guillermo del Toro
“The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.” PeopleWritingYearsLooksBookAgeLiteratureTalkingFourYeahCome UpInstanceComicFantasticAffectedComic BookLook At MeAghastFantastic Four Author:Walter Mosley
“With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures.” MadeFourWayne Author:Kirk Douglas
“I've always loved playing in bands where there's like three or four people and we're all throwing out ideas and coming together to make an album.” PeopleIdeasTogetherThreeFourBandAlbumsThrowingComing Together Author:Travis Barker
“Well first of all I was nine weeks pregnant at the time and no one knew it. So it was - it had a whole other meaning for me not just because I had to let the dress out, you know, every few days before the actual day. But, you know, because that was the, you know, more important than anything else that was going on in my life. But in terms of actually winning I think I had been nominated four or five times before then. And every one of my co-stars had won up until that point.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsWellsImportantWholeWinningStarsTermFiveFourWeekDressesNinePregnant Author:Debra Messing
“And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.” KnowsYearsFourSonBaseballFour YearsPitcherGreat BaseballJugglersBaseball Pitcher Author:Debra Messing
“You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them.” IfsWantNeedsTryingLittlesLongPlayKidsUsedFourBrotherCoupleAdultsBallsNinePlentyLeaguePitcherYour BrotherLittle League Author:Yogi Berra
“Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That's an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?” WorldFirstsHumansHappensRunningEarthThreeWishNaturalHuman BeingsSpaceNumbersFiveFourTelevisionOughtProgramIncreaseExtraordinaryNotionSizePopulationCleverFactorsDestroyedFiniteThree TimesNatural World Author:David Attenborough
“A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.” WorldDoeArtCountryAmericaFormFourRocksSacredSpeedSoftwareOther CountriesPizzaDeliveryRock MusicHigh Speed Author:Courtney Love