“If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.” IfsWantRunningCoursesHoursFourCouplePlanesParisMealsUnexpectedDays Off Author:Ali Larter
“In MMA it’s a lot less intimidating because it’s not like you get one shot at a title every four years. You get a title shot every couple of months ... With the Olympics, you don’t always have this, so there is so much more pressure involved.” YearsFourLike YouMonthsCoupleInvolvedShotsPressureTitlesMmaFour YearsOlympicsIntimidating Author:Ronda Rousey
“I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.” FiveFourCoupleBandClubs Author:Scott Putesky
“I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in which case I’ve begun to feel some jagged little pains shooting down my left forearm and into the base of the thumb.” FeelsWellsLittlesFeelingsPainPastLeftHoursCasesFiveFourCoupleForgottenShootingThumbsFeeling GreatTylenol Author:Roger Angell
“I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.” IfsYearsLittlesSaidStillsWarDoneStoriesFiveFourWifeTypeCoupleOne DayPagesHumorousArmyMy WifeFinishedFive YearsIf I CouldShort StoryOperators Author:Carl Reiner
“In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.” ChildrenThreeFourCoupleMarriedTwentiesBritainCentsSixtyGreat Britain Author:Thomas Malthus
“In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to tell a story, so every panel he wastes conveying a.) something I already know, b.) something that's a cute gag but does nothing to reveal plot or character, or c.) something I don't need to know is a demonstration of lousy craft.” KnowsNeedsDoeBookCharacterStoriesFiveFourCoupleWastePagesHundredShotsAverageCraftsComicCutePlotComic BookDemonstrationGagsConveying Author:Mark Waid
“Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.” IfsGivingYearsTwoTodayArtistForgetMillionsGoneFiveFourCoupleSellsReleaseFive YearsCopiesForget You Author:George Jones
“Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor” ChildrenLawParentBreakFourCoupleTablesLegsCrashIn-laws Author:Siddharth Katragadda
“What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.” ChildrenRealFeelingsProblemNextFiveFourObjectsColorCoupleSpendingDecadesHandleFinanceInstanceMore TimeArrangementsFidelityDiscussingReal ProblemsHouseworkGownsHyperPrioritizeChild RearingWedding DayBridesmaids Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I don't know if there's a proper way to define toughness in a runner, but I do know that there comes a sudden moment when the mindset shifts. The impossible becomes doable, or at least attemptable. The long run goes from two miles to four to ten to fifteen, until it becomes routine at some point deep in an intense training cycle to knock off a couple hours without giving it a thought.” IfsKnowsWayGivingLongTwoMomentsRunningHoursFourImpossibleCoupleTenTrainingMindsetMilesIntenseCyclesRoutineLong RunsFifteenRunnersToughnessIntense Training Author:Martin Dugard
“I ... received a few hugs and dutiful pecks on the cheek at bedtime, even a couple of 'thank-yous' thrown in for good measure. But I'd truly love for someone to explain why the father of my children can simply walk into the house, put down his briefcase, grunt 'Hi kids - howyadoing,' and all four offspring nearly hyperventilate trying to be the first to get close to him. They are crazy about this man, and all he has to do is walk into a room and breathe.” MenTryingFirstsChildrenKidsFatherHouseWalksRoomsFourCrazyCoupleBreatheMy ChildrenThrownCheeksHugOffspringBedtimeGruntBriefcases Author:Becky Freeman
“In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale.” IfsGivingMindWellsCountryHardHappensAmericaThreeLinesPleasureKnownFourPoetHugeCoupleSheepWell KnownOccasionalPuffInhale Author:Michael Longley
“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
“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
“Any filmmaker, big directors, and I'm not dropping any names - I actually have couple names I want to say, but I will not - we have a ratio. Each thing you repeat, my ratio is one to four.Actually some people are ratio one to 34. I know couple directors, big directors, they are just shooting over and over.” PeopleKnowsWantBigsNamesFourCoupleDirectorsShootingFilmmakerRepeatsDroppingRatios Author:Tommy Wiseau
“...we're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.” WayYearsThreeChanceFourEconomicMonthsCoupleSixDollarsRight WaySix MonthsThree Months Author:Van Jones
“Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.” PeopleNeedsYearsMeanBookCommonMillionsFiveFourOne ThingCoupleThousandHundredPopulationCommon SenseThoughtfulCopiesTomsVisionariesHaving HopeGreat AmericanSellersBest SellersPaineTom Paine Author:Studs Terkel
“The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.” FirstsKindShowsVoiceMorningFourNew YorkCoupleRadioInterviewsPubs Author:Hamilton Leithauser
“Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.” FirstsWellsTwoEndsMomentsPastThreeNumbersFourCuttingWeekLandCoupleMajorsThirdsInnovationAverageDecadesGoodsSiteIntroductionDeliveryOver The PastTransactionsMajor Change Author:Malcolm Gladwell