Best four & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Looks Ends Play Choices Three Roles Four Casts Villain Four Years

Author:Kevin McKidd

“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Young Mother Chance Pay Four Taxes Prison Horrible Four Years Contributors

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?”

“I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Looks Hours Four Nice Plans Middle Findings Checks These Days Things To Do Look Up Finding Yourself Pens Wet Marvelous Notebook Auctions Ebay Marvelous Things

Author:Neil Gaiman

“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.”

Ifs Want Running Courses Hours Four Couple Planes Paris Meals Unexpected Days Off

Author:Ali Larter

“As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.”

Ifs Faces Young Night Choices Five Four Week One Day Commitment My Family London Young Women Ifs And Mps

Author:Lucy Powell

“If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Years Looks Three Ability Four Havens Consumers Online Four Years

Author:Stuart Rose

“I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It's simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator... I don't want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.”

Ifs Want Home Night Simple Mistake Four Week Taste Cooking Faults Refrigerators

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“I've lived in worlds where there are three or four suns. We had incredible sunsets, beautiful. But they weren't more beautiful than here, if my mind is more beautiful in each life.”

Ifs World Inspirational Mind Beautiful Three Sun Four Inspirational Life Buddhism Incredibles Sunset

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Jobs Three Bits Careers Four Crazy Position Finished Quilts

Author:Alfred Molina

“I Am Number Four' definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Two Different Whole Would Be Jobs Numbers Four Boring Bunch Fantastic Genre Theme Just One Be Kind Stale

Author:Callan McAuliffe

“The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?”

Ifs Three Four Written Extraordinary Honestly Live By Ancestor Anchors Paragraph Written Word

Author:Randy Wayne White

“If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.”

Ifs Men Two Different Would Be Morning Four Sea Block Abortion Salt Pregnant Flavor Airports Pills Starbucks Clinic Morning After

Author:Nasim Pedrad

“The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles: Show up or choose to be present, Pay attention to what has heart and meaning, Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.”

Ifs Way Heart Shows Belief Simple Pay Attention Principles Practice Four Judgment Blame Pay Attention Outcomes Telling The Truth Basic Principles

Author:Angeles Arrien

“Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.”

Ifs Giving Made Film Technology Four Tree Cameras Video Grain Leafs Video Cameras

Author:Jonas Mekas

“If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.”

Ifs Knows Men Two Four Argument Repeats

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“We guided our children. We supported them. We were there for them. But once you start going through your list of schools that present a potential opportunity, a young man or a young woman has to be happy with their decision. If they are unhappy, then their whole four years of college are going to be some of the most miserable memories of their lifetime.”

Ifs Men Years Children Whole School Young Opportunity Memories Decision Four College Our Children Lifetime Lists Unhappy Miserable Young Man Four Years Young Women

Author:Craig Biggio

“You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.”

Ifs Want Stills Running Three Hours Four Minutes Ought Nine Want Something Visitors

Book:The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

“I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.”

Ifs Knows Four Closets

Author:Janelle Monae

“Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.”

Ifs Knows Mean Real Bits Four Honest Willing Cold Posts Being Honest Tangible Unicorn Fusion Something Real Leprechaun

Author:Tim Wise

“The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.”

Ifs Four Singers Aces

Author:Desmond Dekker

“What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?”

Ifs Trying Years Together Party Hell Four Democratic Four Years Democratic Party Expediency

Book:Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

“I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?" And I was like, "Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something." So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.”

Ifs Said Actors Fun Hours Five Four New York Directors Twenties Yeah Disaster Staying Flirting Couches Eric Lucy

Author:Ben Stiller

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls... and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side.”

Ifs Knows Doe Art Self School Faces Young Sides Space Four Students Wall One Day Solitude Creatures Painter Solitary Art School Four Walls Art Students

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.”

“Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it on to others. We ought to have four ears,- two for ourselves, and two for other people. My Bible is worth a good deal to me because I have so many passages marked that, if I am called upon to speak at any time, I am ready. We ought to be prepared to pass around heavenly thoughts and truths, just as we do the coin of the realm.”

People Ifs Two Ends Christian Speak Growth Views Deals Study Grace Four Ready Ought Ears Prepared Passing Passings Realms Heavenly Passages Be Prepared Coins Passing It

Book:Talks to Christians

Source: Talks to Christians

“If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land.”

Ifs Should Firsts Care Order Four Land Security Praying Insecurity Quarters Tranquility If You Care Personal Security

Book:The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

“I had no idea that marriage was only supposed to be between two people who wanted to get between the sheets and make more people. What ever happened to marrying for love— or to get on your partner’s health insurance policy, or for presents? No one was going to buy two people in their thirties a four-slice toaster if we just continued to live in sin.”

People Ifs Two Ideas Wanted Sin Four Happened Policy Partners Supposed To Be No Idea Sheets Marrying Toasters Insurance Policy

Book:I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids

Source: I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids

“Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.”

Ifs Men Play Care Humanity Hours Leader Four Streets Strange Ready Optimism Towns Following Pleasant Tunes March Rhyme Banner Fondness Procession

Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl, or Elmo, or Yogi Bear and Booboo. If we didn't do it, she would scream at us. So, my wife and I would have adult conversations as Yogi Bear and Booboo. It was just a nightmare year.”

Ifs Years Two Voice Half Four Wife Bears Conversation Adults My Wife Nightmare Scream Woody Yogi Cowgirls Elmo Yogi Bear

Author:Judd Apatow

“If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?”

Ifs Long Art Stuff Forget Company Successful Records Four Painting Equal Lawyer Forget It Gallery Record Companies Patron Leonardo Publicists

Author:Debbie Harry

“I was surprised that each expert cared for different images, and had varied suggestions for how to continue my work. If each expert had been my teacher, I would have pursued four different directions, and lost my way.”

Ifs Way Different Lost Teacher Four Teaching My Way Experts Suggestions Pursued Different Directions

Author:Jane Fulton Alt

“These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.”

Ifs Sound Four Band Gang

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't like to see our donations spent on advertising in charity. Our attitude is, 'Well look, if you can get the advertising donated (at four o'clock in the morning) I'm okay with that, but I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it to go to the needy,' as if the money invested in advertising could not bring in dramatically greater sums of money to serve the needy.”

Ifs Want Wells Looks Lasts Values Attitude Morning Greater Four Produce Okay Dollars Charity Profit Advertising Clock Pennies Needy Donation

Author:Dan Pallotta

“Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.”

Ifs Want Hours Mistake Four Solitude Twenties Constant Crowds Distraction Wherever You Are Honeymoon Arranging

Book:The Honeymoon: A Comedy in Three Acts

Source: The Honeymoon: A Comedy in Three Acts

“I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Three Natural Support Five Four Planets Huge Standards Resources Natural Resources Standards Of Living High Standards

Author:Jane Goodall

“American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.”

Ifs Want Years Pay Attention Four Outcomes Voters Four Years Whining American Voters

Author:Jack Germond

“One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.”

Ifs Years Reason President Numbers Four Trouble Four Years Another Year Reason To Live

Author:Rex Stout

“After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.”

Ifs Giving Years Said Would Be Earth Order Asks President Four Advice Years Ago Terrorist Pursue President Obama Four Years Pakistan Naive Better Off Romney Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden

Author:John F. Kerry

“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .”

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.”

Ifs Together Strong Break Four Teaching Son Bed Weak Drawing Broke Score Divided Surviving Bundles Darts Death Bed

Book:Plutarch's Morals

Source: Plutarch's Morals

“It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.”

People Ifs Might Mother Four Brother Myth Be Good Uncles Aunt Your Brother

Author:David Hockney

“Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Ends Hours Four Twenties

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true - although it sounds good! - but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.”

Ifs Knows Littles Two Ends Hands Parent Sound Black Four Taught The End Of The Day Pairs Frozen Skates Rumours Two Sisters

Author:Bobby Hull

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