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“Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.”

Life Two Life Is Four Thousand Ten Plague

Book:The Windup Girl

Source: The Windup Girl

“If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.”

Ifs Way Trying Mean Two Hands Hours Lines Five Four Sea Arms Six Rivers Weight Fishes Nine Boat Lakes Fishing Pounds Length Casting

Author:Ted Trueblood

“In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.”

“With the advent of 24-hour Sky News, the News Flash has been greatly devalued. Time was, when something unimaginably horrendous had to happen before it was deemed worthy of a News Flash. At least one, preferably two, and ideally all four horsemen of the apocalypse would have to be involved.”

Has Beens Two Happens Hours Four Sky Television Involved News Worthy Flash Apocalypse Advent Horsemen Four Horsemen Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

Author:Declan Lynch

“The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.”

Two Jobs Film Four Directors Hollywood Plus Viewers

Author:Ernst Lubitsch

“The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.”

Two Hard Might Fighting Three Four Week Months Shapes Japan Schedules Two Weeks Perks

Author:Owen Hart

“The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.”

Thinking Years Wells Has Beens Two Race Four Cost Percent Campaigns Presidential Four Years Presidential Campaign

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.”

World Two Wisdom Faces Values Politics Economy Four Mankind Six Scales Rhythm Liberalism Torn Vibrations Disparity Torn Apart

Book:The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

“I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.”

Knows Two Break Four Feet Golf Hang In There Rattlesnakes

Author:Sam Snead

“In the course of carrying through our program for which we have calculated four years, two and one-quarter million out of six million unemployed have already received employment again within a period of eight short months.”

Years Two Courses Millions Four Months Periods Six Program Eight Employment Quarters Four Years Unemployed

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for president, two for vice president. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.”

Way Years Made Two Found Enjoy President Race Four Vices Vice President

Author:Al Gore

“If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.”

Ifs Long Two Remember Four Anxiety Mouths Thirds Teeth

Author:Martial

“The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.”

Two Book Sides Behinds Four Sea Fronts Rose East Valleys Fourth Cones Citadels

Book:Three Tales

Source: Three Tales

“Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.”

Men Two Three Can Do Four Wonderful Hundred Army Checks Urges Pounds Wonderful Things Whips Fiery Sass

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.”

Two Four Imagine Possibility Planets Moon Nine Gifted Astronomers

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

“If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.”

Ifs Want Years Littles Two Ideas School Law Fun Bits Can Do Four Worst College Fine Thousand Little Bit Hundred Okay Dollars Debt What You Want Four Years Worst Things Law School

Author:Tucker Max

“I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.”

Children Persons Stills Two Book Character Kids Courses My Own Consciousness Known Four Filled Including Grandchildren Still Life

Author:Lois Lowry

“Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.”

May Two Ends Water Cities Four Sea Feet Century New York Higher Climate Climate Change Storm Rising New York City Coastal

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.”

“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.”

Ifs Giving Years Two Today Artist Forget Millions Gone Five Four Couple Sells Release Five Years Copies Forget You

Author:George Jones

“I'm very much a man of the moment. I can think about an idea for a year, two years, even four years all right, but what ever is going on with me the moment I write is gonna work it's way into the piece.”

Thinking Men Way Writing Years I Can Two Ideas Moments Pieces Four Two Years Working It Four Years

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.”

Way Years Humans Heart Two Light Imagination Human Beings Views Four Tree Skills Normal Survival Beats Seasons Possession Desert Faster Rely Sand Pace Palms Gleam Heart Beat Palm Trees

Book:Women of Sand and Myrrh

Source: Women of Sand and Myrrh

“If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'”

Ifs Has Beens Two House Four Months Lists Two Months

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times for the 9-to-5-in' bus ridin' dudes And four times for my dreamers, yo I'm just like you That's why I sing for my queens with their own pair of wings My brothers flyin' beside me, drama behind me Mama tried to find me, she inquired emphatically I was in the sky with all these other ghetto kids, defying gravity, uh”

“Two hands are better than four sometimes.”

Two Sometimes Hands Four Cooperation Two Hands

Book:The Lost Traveller

Source: The Lost Traveller

“I really like the idea of being utilitarian. My dream is to edit down my wardrobe and be very Japanese, where you have one rolling rack and it's like your four T-shirts, your five dresses, your two pairs of jeans.”

Two Ideas Dream Five Four Like You Dresses Shirts Pairs Rolling Jeans T Shirt Wardrobe Edits Racks Utilitarian

Author:Erin Wasson

“There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.”

Said Stills Two Government Form Names Democracy Four Principal Fifth Monarchy Aristocracy Forms Of Government Oligarchy Generic Constitutional Government Generic Name

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.”

Two Whole Lasts Hours Numbers Class Practice Four Week Feet Six Ballet Sequence Ballet Class Six Feet Under

Author:Michelle Trachtenberg

“I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the Time Warp Trio novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.”

Writing Years Littles Two Book Inspiration School Novel Four Taught Ten Take Me Seconds Flash Apartment Elementary School Warp Trios

Author:Jon Scieszka

“Nutrition is not a mathematical equation in which two plus two is four. The food we put in our mouths doesn't control our nutrition-not entirely. What our bodies do with that food does.”

Doe Two Body Four Mouths Mathematical Plus Nutrition Equations Mathematical Equations

Book:Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

Source: Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

“I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.”

Writing Trying Years Two Play Three Games Hours Morning Five Four Week Clubs Bridges Tournaments Duplicate

Author:Louis Sachar

“The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with coins, or dice, or chess pieces, or pencils. He knows it, and that's that. He cannot conceive a different sum. There are mathematicians who say that three plus one is a tautology for four, a different way of saying "four" ... If three plus one can be two, or fourteen, then reason is madness.”

Source: The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

“You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."”

Way Two Three Numbers Five Four Mathematics Complicated Counting Chemist Hydrogen Helium Proton Lithium

Book:QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.”

Believe Two Ends Talking Four Doctors Eight Pills Not Talking Valium

Author:Corey Haim

“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.”

Ifs Two Four Kissing My Friends Praise Profit Ass Conclusion Folly Foe Negatives Make

Book:The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Source: The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

“I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.”

Two Kids Four Painting Dad Office Garden Including Fishes Posts Shops Uncles Centre Chips Retired Own Business Decorating Post Office Fish And Chips Lancashire

Author:Rick Astley

“A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.”

People Men Two Three Boys Four Murder

Book:The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz

Source: The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz

“To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you'll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold only have an incomplete half of it, and that it won't ever really exist as a whole until you're together, talking or thinking about that moment ...that's worth more than one plus one. It's worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can't even imagine it.”

“I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.”

Two Rich Five Four Glasses Bread Diets Eggs Breakfast Milk Jam Bananas Protein Carbohydrates

Author:Vijender Singh

“I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.”

Years Has Beens Two Kids Four Very Good Two Years Contraception

Author:Foster Friess

“Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.”

Two Reason Character Interesting Four Perfection Instinct Legs Pairs Meanness Interesting Characters

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“We lost one (Finals), we won two and we lost another one. (We'll) take 50 percent in four years in championships any day. Obviously, we want to win all of them, but that's just the nature of the game. Not proud of the way we played (in this series).”

Way Want Years Two Games Winning Lost Four Proud Percent Series Four Years Championship Nba Championships Lost Ones Nba Finals

Author:LeBron James

“I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.”

Believe Two Reason Belief I Believe Four Eight

Author:Moliere

“As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening”

People Inspirational Trying Two Spirit Creative Four Creating Happenings Twenties Affair Love Affair Creative People Twenty One

Book:The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

“Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.”

Ifs Littles Two Care Games Bits Taken Four Little Bit Balls Turnover

Author:Bo Ryan

“Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.”

Long Two Enough Age Success Time Three Hope Wish Change Realizing Courage Four Succeed

Author:Earl Nightingale

“All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.”

Two Whole Humor Funny Culture Taken Four Wife China My Wife Bottles Lamps Intuitive Donkey Condiments Chianti

Author:Peter Shaffer

“The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes seriousand studious at six all seem to surprise their parents. It is difficult to let go of one's image of a child, say goodbye to the child a parent knows, and get accustomed to this slightly new child inhabiting the known child's body.”

Knows Children Two Body Seems Parent Difficult Known Four Baby Quiet Letting Go Six Surprise Calm Goodbye Temper Accustomed Infant Saying Goodbye Tantrums Studious Temper Tantrums Wild Child

Author:Ellen Galinsky

“A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole body...a troublesome vomiting came on, of a fluid which resembl’d water, tinctur’d with soot.... Death took place.... In the stomach...was an ulcerated cancerous tumour.... Betwixt the stomach and the spleen were two glandular bodies, of the bigness of a bean, and in their colour, and substance, not much unlike that tumour which I have describ’d in the stomach.”

Men Years Two Whole Body Age Death Water Five Four Months Six Substance Colour Fifty Stomach Four Years Six Months Fluid Beans Troublesome Vomiting Spleen

Author:Giovanni Battista Morgagni

“The important point there is that when people talk about a mean temperature rise of say two, three or four degrees that's a sort of global average which really is a signature of large scale change in climatic patterns.”

People Mean Two Important Three Four Degrees Average Patterns Scales Temperature Signatures Large Scale

Author:Martin Rees