“I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.” YearsI CanPlayWaitingRolesFourTvsMy FriendsCanadaCall MeFour YearsWaiting Around Author:Sandra Oh
“In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.” SaidI CanMomentsUseRememberUsedNumbersFiveFourCuttingFitConversationMy FriendsAgreementImpressedElephantsDesperationArbitraryProceduresCalculationsTrunksParametersNot ImpressedVon Neumann Author:Freeman Dyson
“[On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.” IfsFourDogMy FriendsIntervention Author:Cynthia Heimel
“At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.” IfsKnowsWayLooksCareLyingFourMiddleMy FriendsCaughtMinorsWho CaresSeventiesEightySpectacularRaveCaught In The Middle Book:Myself Among Others Source: Myself Among Others
“Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.” IfsTwoFourKissingMy FriendsPraiseProfitAssConclusionFollyFoeNegatives Make Book:The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works Source: The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought where slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack.” KnowsChildrenBookFourUnderstoodSittingMy FriendsWheelsCracksAuditionsLunaticChildren's BooksSteering Author:Jason Isaacs
“All of my friends went to college and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller. I think I was really nervous that I somehow didn't feel right out in the world in that way.” ThinkingWorldWayFeelsJobsMotherAsksHoursFourCollegeTerribleMy FriendsCirclesNervousSpellsPizzaFeels Right Author:Sarah Paulson