“I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day. It used to be sushi, but these days I cannot stop eating mac and cheese. I haven't had it from a box in a long time, but I'll make it homemade style with four types of cheeses, lots of milk, maybe a little ketchup. I don't know, I'm crazy like that.” KnowsLittlesLongUsedFourCrazyStyleHavensTypeEatingLong TimeBoxesUsed To BeThese DaysMealsMilkCheeseMacsHomemadeSushiKetchupMacaroniMacaroni And Cheese Author:Cobie Smulders
“I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.” WritingImportantUsedWinningHoursRoomsRaceFourCoffeeUsed To BeBreakfastSteadyDays OffPajamasSlow And Steady Author:Scott Westerfeld
“I arrived at my hut in Beverly Hills just in time to keep real estate men from plotting off and selling my front yard. They will sell you anything or anybody's in the world as long as they can get a first payment... It used to be only Iowa that was out here but now they have three or four adjoining states interested and they are here, too. Real estate agents - you never saw as many in your life; they are as thick as bootleggers.” MenWorldFirstsLongRealStatesUsedThreeSawsFourFrontsSellsSellingUsed To BeAgentsHillsThickEstatesYardsPaymentIowaHutsBeverly HillsEstate AgentsToo Real Author:Will Rogers
“I think people are having less of an investment in relationships. It used to be that you meet someone, you go on four or five dates and you gradually get to know them and trust them at the same time, and you learn a little bit about them. Now, it could be one date - maybe even before that first date - you go on Facebook have all the information.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsLittlesUsedBitsFiveFourInformationGoes OnLittle BitInvestmentUsed To BeFirst Date Author:Ashton Kutcher
“The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.” WayLittlesUsedHoursSecretKnownFourStreetsSecurityBrotherWallKeysBearsSkillsSurvivalTwentiesCrisisReputationUsed To BeDirtyFirmExecutivesDay To DayOngoingFundingMarketplaceStanleyGoldman SachsLehman Brothers Author:William D. Cohan
“A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!” UsedGuyReadingFiveFourRocksBandSittingUsed To BeDrummerManualsSitting AroundRock Bands Author:Bill Bruford
“I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds.” WorldWayMindAbleUsedHoursMy OwnBrainFourLike YouPhonesFocusedChecksUsed To BeReleaseWorriedChairsInterruptionsDopamineMy Own World Author:Brit Marling
“The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.” MayArtHappensFormUsedDiesHousePracticeNovelFourPoetSixCoachesThings HappenIncomeUsed To BeServantPleasantStaffTennyson Author:William Monahan
“We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. We beat all three in less than four years. We're about to enter the seventh year of this phony war against ... [terrorist groups], and we're losing.” YearsWarCountryUsedThreeFourGroupsSeriousLosingBeatsTerroristUsed To BeGermanyJapanFour YearsNaziPearlsHarborsFascistsPhonyNazi GermanyTerrorist Groups Author:Newt Gingrich