“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.” ForceLinesRoomsFourNew YorkSeasonsBarsLocalsMealsLunchMinorsNoonReservationsPinnacleSierraNapkinsWhitneyZenithFour Seasons Author:Raymond Sokolov
“I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.” PeopleLongTogetherCompanyFourBiggerTwentiesBarsGiantsWorking TogetherSoloDuets Author:Mark Morris
“The stuff I'm working on is quite dense. I'm seeing every four bars as a scene in a film.” FilmStuffFourSeeingSceneBarsDense Author:Pharoahe Monch
“As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to catch planes, doing two cities a day, eating the Pringle food object out of the mini-bar at night as I crawled around on the hotel room floor, too tired even to phone room service, I thought, 'There must be a better way of doing this'.” WayTwoBookStatesNightUnitedRoomsCitiesMorningUnited StatesFourObjectsEatingTiredPhonesBarsPlanesHotelBetter WaysHotel RoomsDementedRoom ServicePringles Author:Margaret Atwood
“Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.” IndividualFourBarsSoap Author:Howard Hughes
“My cousin Louie, we walk into a bar, and he says, Dom, I think that waitress knows me. What do you think she knows, Louie? The fact that your belly came in four steps ahead of you?” ThinkingKnowsFactsWalksStepsFourBarsKnow MeBellyCousinWaitressMy CousinDoms Author:Dom Irrera
“If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.” IfsWayPersonsDifferentUseMightFourTheoryLettersComplicatedBarsEducatedIdeologyDiscussionAgendasPushingSpheresConspiracyMarxistDowntownConspiracy TheoryEducated PersonFour Letter Words Author:Noam Chomsky