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“I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago - every five years they have a remembrance on D-Day beaches and I would have liked to have been there and done my bit.”

World Years Has Beens War Done Kids Bits Five Four Dad Years Ago My Dad Beach War Of The Worlds Five Years World War Ii Four Years World War I Remembrance D Day

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I had been secretary of state for eight years, attorney general for four years, lieutenant governor for four years, and governor for four years - I had all these friends around the country - so I thought I could gin up a campaign not for me but against George W. Bush, against his war, against his economic policies, and against his education policies.”

Years War Country States Four Economic Policy Eight Campaigns Four Years Governors Secretary Attorney Gin Economic Policy Lieutenants

Author:Don Siegelman

“In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there.”

Ifs Thinking World Play Strong Roles Five Four Car Data Very Strong Platforms Automobile Navigation Nokia

Author:Stephen Elop

“Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.”

Looks Two Might Four Generations Twenties Eight Clarity Thirty Rising Adolescence Mist Eighteen Discerning Twenty Two Thirty Eight Four Generations

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.”

Thinking Knows Two Five Four Conservative Unhappy Radical

Author:Herbert V. Prochnow

“I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.”

Hours Four Twenties Deeds Virtuous Repent

Book:Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

“The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.”

Writing Political Purpose Four Historical Enthusiasm Impulse Motive Prose Sheer Egoism

Author:George Orwell

“I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.”

Found Left Four Kings England

Author:Bob Hope

“If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.”

Ifs Use Three Five Four Elements Available Four Elements Five Elements

Author:Pablo Picasso

“All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.”

Mind Body Three Evil Four Ten Tongue Avoiding

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.”

Two Girl Women Four Thirty Seventeen

Author:Fred Allen

“That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.”

Hands Pieces Four Cutting Rounds Corners Nonsense Passages Sublime Ridicule Fiery

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.”

Years Littles Remember White Four Sky Tears Spring Blue Wings Clouds Grass Little Things Ducks Ponds Blue Sky White Clouds

Author:William Allingham

“I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.”

Giving Two Five Four Fine Mathematics Agree Dues Excellent Fine Things

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.”

Knows Night Three Sleep Four Bed Hotel Traveler Nomad

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.”

Mistake Taken Four Century Perspective Ghastly Redress

Book:Georges Braque

Source: Georges Braque

“People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.”

People Firsts Said Important Ideas Change Interesting Four Stage Development Waste Revolutionary My Time Nonsense Good Ideas Wasting My Time Don't Waste My Time

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.”

People Knows Want Humans Reason Four Seeing Ten Harder Wings Very Good Speed Faster Reason Why Sensible Inches Mice Gnome High Speed

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.”

People Thinking Use Bigs Today Laughing Four Letters Shooting Shock Panic Shortcuts Four Letter Words

Author:Red Skelton

“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Ends Courses Teach Practice Study Four Teaching Taught Theory Four Years Engineering Unbroken

Author:Charles Kettering

“In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.”

Thinking Way Doe Ideas Morning Creative Four Wonderful Walking Activity Spending Stores Yesterday Department Delightful Spending Time Creative Ideas

Book:The Journals of Arnold Bennett: 1911-1921

Source: The Journals of Arnold Bennett: 1911-1921

“When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.”

Persons Used Water Five Four Rocks Strange Materials Mountain Elements Red Stones Blue Green Paint Seven Treasure Cake Jewels Rice Wondrous Rice Cakes

Author:Dogen

“I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.”

House Left Lines Four Magic Internet Areas Bay Area Food Banks

Author:Andy Hertzfeld

“Of every four words I write, I strike out three.”

Writing Three Four Strikes Editing

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.”

Ifs Writing Years Long Enough Seems Four Thirds Finished Opera

Author:Virgil Thomson

“My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.”

Kids Four Wife Regret Late My Wife Too Late

Author:John Lithgow

“everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.”

Want Writing Trying Humans Long Happens Humanity Hours Four Communication Draws Garden Letters Twenties Dresses Express Yourself

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock.”

States Social Justice United United States Four Feet Building Criminals Circles Wheels Metals Frozen Sculpture Attorney Justice System Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Gridlock

Author:Jonathan Larson

“The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.”

“Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.”

Trying Enough Three Four Achieve Havens Balance Stones Firing

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.”

People Years Four Failing Authority Paint Four Years Consistently Fear Of Failing Great Author

Author:Brian Johnson

“I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.”

People Years Book Mother Four Advice Asking Finished Four Years Childbirth

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken.”

World Years America Four Years Ago Chaos Four Years Mistaken Perpetrators

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.”

Knows Humans Use Bigs Jobs Hate Games Sports Hours Know How Four Fans Football Elements I Hate Instant Nfl Umpires Football Game Football Fan Replay Nfl Football Instant Replay

Author:Bud Selig

“Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.”

Force Lines Rooms Four New York Seasons Bars Locals Meals Lunch Minors Noon Reservations Pinnacle Sierra Napkins Whitney Zenith Four Seasons

Author:Raymond Sokolov

“Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.”

Humans Action Motivation Four Hunger Vanity Motive Human Actions

Book:Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

“I cannot judge what motivates people. We are all moved by one of four things or a combination of these four things: money, romance, recognition or survival.”

People Romance Motivation Four Judging Survival Moved Recognition Combination

Author:Jack White

“When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.”

Years Four Four Years Realised Likelihood

Author:Shane Warne

“Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.”

Two Faces Grace Four Sweet Ten Fairs Shining Wit Goddess Charming Muse Adore Venus Stella Cyprus

Author:Callimachus

“I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.”

Years Different Four Rocks Years Ago Albums Four Years Rock And Roll

Author:Paris Hilton

“Work is a four-letter word.”

Work Music Four Society Letters Four Letter Words

Author:Cilla Black

“I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.”

Hours Four Performances Theatre Preparation Concentration

Author:Natalia Makarova

“China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.”

Should Important States Effort Four Serious Members Disease Bird Organization China Russia Target Combat Cooperation Asian Flu Prevention Infectious Diseases Bird Flu

Author:Wen Jiabao

“In the governor's race, Chris Bell has as good a shot as anybody in a four-way race. If Bell holds on to his base and connects with some people who are tired of the way things are going, he could win.”

People Ifs Way Winning Race Four Shots Tired Bells Governors

Author:Ed Martin

“I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.”

Years Important Bigs Four Team Tough Errors Trials Managers League Coaching Four Years Trial And Error

Author:Jim Leyland

“Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now or even your career. How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now?.”

People Want Writing Has Beens Feelings Might Past Next Parent Emotion Careers Four Childhood Letting Go Who You Are Upset Your Children Ties Related Our Relationship I Want You

Author:James W. Pennebaker

“I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales”

Should Believe I Believe Nations United Four England Unions Kingdoms Flags Ireland Scotland Wales United Kingdom Northern Ireland

Author:Ian Lucas

“The qualifying system helps the top guys like Sergio Garcia, who play most of their golf in the U.S. They can rely on the world rankings and just play their four extra events [with the four majors and three World Golf Championship events counting as seven European events]. But for the other guys it's tough, and I don't know if that can be changed. It is a tricky situation.”

Ifs Knows World Play Helping Guy Three Situation Four Events Changed Majors Tough Golf Seven Rely Extras Championship Counting Tricky Other Guys Ranking Qualifying

Author:Luke Donald

“The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.”

War Hard Cases Four Worst Apocalypse Scenarios Famine Recessions Landing 1930s Pestilence Horsemen Four Horsemen Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

Author:Kenneth S. Deffeyes

“One game can make a season, especially when you have just four wins going into the game.”

Games Winning Four Seasons

Author:Bob Dwyer