“Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.” FeelsSaidSometimesMomentsHandsReadingFourPagesScripts Author:Geoffrey Rush
“You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.” KnowsI CanCountryMomentsPastFourCenturyEthicsPuritan Author:James Young
“I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.” MomentsKidsFiveFourListeningGrewGrew UpSingingPianoConceptionListening To Music Author:K. D. Lang
“I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.” YearsBelieveMomentsKidsLastsNightWalksActingFourPushingFour YearsButtonsEmbarrassedLast NightNickelodeon Author:Nia Long
“Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.” ShouldYearsMomentsThreeFourRetiringFour YearsShould I Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“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
“The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.” ShouldYearsHumansMomentsFactsBeliefWaitingHuman BeingsHalfFireFourHairFineComputerDestructionFruitBillionsRebelInstructionBalancedButtonsChipsMachineryTriggersCarelessUndoneMisguidedDeranged Book:The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition
“Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.” YearsChildrenLongMomentsFactsHappensLastsLossGriefForeverFiveFourStageCarEventsHusbandPressureSeriesLifetimeAccidentsEnormousTeenagerGrievingFive YearsFiftyOur SocietyFour YearsGet OverAftermathCar AccidentTimelines Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.” NeedsMomentsJobsArtistCompanyRecordsFourAliveFiguresDevelopmentCamerasPhonesSupremeTemptationBridgesGapsRecord Companies Author:Laurieann Gibson
“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.” ThinkingMenWayWritingYearsI CanTwoIdeasMomentsPiecesFourTwo YearsWorking ItFour Years Author:Quentin Tarantino