“The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.” ThinkingWorldWantYearsFourPlayerGoldAthleteCupsFour YearsOlympicsMedalRugbyWorld CupGold Medals Author:George Gregan
“So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth.” ThinkingWantKindHappensEarthThreeChristChurchFourMastersFocusedScriptureVersesLoftyGodlinessHanging AroundBrief Life Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I've not done any for a good long while now. I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry. I didn't hate it, but I was yearning to do something different. I was on a gradient. It was a gradual thing.” ThinkingYearsLongDifferentDoneFeelingsHateFourIndustryYears AgoFour YearsYearningModelingGood Long Author:Agyness Deyn
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.” ThinkingMenPersonsMadeStillsEndsCharacterUnitedSituationLordFourObjectsYouthFineBlessingConstantAppearanceDevotionVanityFiftyInferiorsHandsomeDelightedValetPersonal Appearance Author:Jane Austen
“I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWritingFirstsPlayStepsFiveFourProduceFirst Steps Author:Jean Kerr
“I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.” ThinkingDifferentUseProcessAnswersFourInformationBillsScreensDumbGatesSmarterProcessingRight Answers Author:Walter Isaacson
“One of the things that I always think about is the emotional sophistication of animals and how much we're learning about the emotional sophistication of animals. If you're eating a pig, you're essentially eating the equivalent of a four-year-old human being.” IfsThinkingYearsHumansHuman BeingsAnimalFourEmotionalEatingFour YearsPigsSophistication Author:Bryan Fuller
“I also think that filmmakers understand, we don't have to make twenty movies a year, we make four to six.” ThinkingYearsFourSixTwentiesFilmmaker Author:Thomas Tull
“The visualization of my films is always very important to me and I work very closely with my cinematographers. I've never had the same cinematographer twice now that I think about it. I don't know why that is. Everyone is always busy. They do three or four films a year. It's vital to me.” ThinkingKnowsYearsImportantFilmThreeFourBusyVisualizationCinematographers Author:Scott Hicks
“I don't think the film is going to work for everybody, period. It wasn't meant to be done for everybody. I didn't four quadrant this movie, like Hollywood did. I knew it was a very specific audience that was there. We're also taking a shot in the dark.” ThinkingDoneFilmDarkAudienceFourPeriodsShotsHollywoodMeant To BeGoing To Work Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.” ThinkingDoneStuffFourArrangementsOrchestra Author:Brian May
“I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket.” ThinkingWellsUsedStuffCasesFourProtectCreditCardsPocketsBagsCredit CardPassportsSmall Stuff Author:Avicii
“I get the Playboy thing a lot. People assume I go out with bimbos. I couldn`t go out with bimbos if I tried! I scare them off! The women that like me are smart. So I go to the Playboy Mansion four or five times a year, but people think I go all the time.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFiveFourSmartAssumingLike MeScareMansionsPlayboy Author:Bill Maher
“I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.” ThinkingTryingDifferentShowsProblemFormAsksFiveFourMinutesStartingDrawingDifferent ThingsFive MinutesPlaying MusicStarting Out Author:Demetri Martin
“I remember having a grade-school teacher I thought was a hard-ass. When you're that age, you think the guy is Himmler. Then you visit him eight years later and he's wearing polyester pants, he's four foot eight, you think he's gay, and you're like, 'Are you the guy I was afraid of?” ThinkingYearsHardAgeSchoolRememberGuyTeacherFourFeetGayEightAssGradesPantsSchool TeachersGrades In SchoolHimmler Author:Jon Stewart
“Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon just got themselves a marriage license. I think before she gets married again Pam needs to slow down and think about whether this is really the man she wants to spend three or four months of her life with.” ThinkingMenWantNeedsThreeFourHe ManMonthsMarriedDown AndSlow DownLicense Author:Chelsea Handler
“I have probably four or five male friends who have a real strong masculine side but some degree of a feminine side, too. They're pretty rare, whereas I think women with a masculine side are much less rare.” ThinkingRealStrongSidesFiveFourDegreesMalesFeminineMasculine Author:John Malkovich
“What I learned, in the two months that we shot, I don't think I could have learned in two to four years of drama school. It's invaluable to me, and that's been the most fun. It's been nice to let this be a learning experience in everything.” ThinkingYearsTwoSchoolFunFourNiceMonthsDramaShotsFour YearsTwo MonthsInvaluableLearning Experience Author:Steven Yeun
“I think the thing that made this stand out the most was just the fact that there's a lot more character to these characters. We see their back stories and we see their present situations, and that was a lot more interesting than just the regular procedural with four heads standing around a body, spelling it out for you. It's a lot more of a roller coaster ride.” ThinkingMadeCharacterFactsStoriesBodyInterestingSituationFourStandingStanding OutSpellingRoller CoasterCoastersPresent SituationRoller Coaster Rides Author:Angie Harmon
“The best thing about the Nikita show is that there's so many layers. Even after the pilot, the next four have a twist. Don't think that you've seen it all or that you know it now, and that it's not going to have any more surprises. There's a surprise in every episode, so it's a lot to keep track of.” ThinkingKnowsShowsNextFourSurpriseTrackBest ThingsPilotsLayersEpisodesTwists Author:Lyndsy Fonseca
“My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!” ThinkingMenI CanKidsWantedUsedHouseLeftBlackWhiteRoomsMorningFiveFourTvsMomDadMarriedThirdsMy DadBoxesDivorceAssGradesBreakfastBlack And WhiteCaptainsSurvivedFurnitureDivorcedCouchesLiving RoomRubberCrunchThird GradeSleepovers Author:Christopher Titus
“And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.” ThinkingHeartKidsLastsFatherParentFourWifeGroupsMomHusbandSixShotsMy FamilyIllMy MomAlcoholExesFamily HistoryHeart AttackMentally IllHaving KidsEx Wife Author:Christopher Titus
“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
“When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.” ThinkingFatherFiveFourStoresFarmersAfternoonSaturdaySaturday Afternoon Author:Dinah Shore
“When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.” ThinkingYearsKindI CanDifferentWantedSchoolRememberGivenSexEnjoySidesDarkFiveFourListeningMoonBandNoiseDifferent KindsFifthCdsDark SideMy BirthdayPistolsHendrixProdigiesDifferent Kinds Of MusicSex Pistols Author:Eliot Paulina Sumner
“I've been doing four-track songs by myself since I was like a teenager, where I'd sing in a way that I ... I just didn't think other people would like it, so I didn't play it for them but eventually I got over that, which I'm happy that I did, because it's kind of a drag to be playing a kind of music that you don't really like as much as another kind.” PeopleThinkingWayKindPlaySongFourTrackTeenagerDrag Author:Elliott Smith
“This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveMadeSpiritualityI BelieveFeltSoundHellFiveFourTreeFlowerUnderstoodYears AgoGrassDiscussionFive YearsBelieve In GodHawaiiCheesy Author:Natalie Maines
“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldTryingMeanPlayWholeLastsCultureFourSeriousOughtHealthySmartGunEconomicsSeasonsEntertainmentDiscussionSmokingIdolsRepresentativesYoutubeManufacturingSmart PeopleProliferationReally SmartAmerican IdolFour SeasonsCelebrity Culture Author:Stephen King
“I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.” ThinkingYearsArtChurchFourHundredCapitalismYears AgoCatholicProductiveCatholic Church Author:Mick Farren
“When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot on film and which ones were shot digitally. I think that is because the filmmakers in Europe go to four years of film school and learn the techniques.” ThinkingYearsSchoolFilmFourStudentsShotsEuropeTechniqueFilmmakerFour YearsDecemberFilm SchoolHungary Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They're reporting what they're seeing and what's happening around them. So there's a lot of potential for breaking news.” PeopleThinkingWorldFourSeeingNewsHappeningsTwentiesSevenAround The WorldEvery SecondBreaking News Author:Biz Stone
“I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where we think we already know the common narrative, or things that are at the margins of an over-reported story, where we're all so focused in one direction that we're missing something crucial that's unfolding off to the side.” ThinkingKnowsTwoStoriesThreeSidesCommonFourMissingFocusedNarrativeCrucialMarginsUnfoldingOne DirectionMissing Something Author:Sarah Stillman
“When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.” ThinkingLooksMatterKidsYoungNamesFunFourBandExcited Author:Stephen Malkmus