“I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.” UsedThreeHouseKnowingTakenBoxesUsed To BeCaliforniaLos AngelesVacant Author:Edward Ruscha
“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.” TryingProblemTogetherJobsThreeProcessDecisionCareersTakenPiecesWeekAmountFlowProductionsFinanceCashOnly TimeInadequatePrepsCash Flow Author:Joe Johnston
“I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.” TwoEndsDreamNightThreeTakenMonthsGet RealThree MonthsTwo MonthsIndolence Author:Stephen King
“It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.” YearsValuesThreeTakenThirtyThree YearsBangs Author:Stirling Moss
“Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.” YearsHardJobsThreeHoursHalfTakenYears AgoSentencesGet BetterThree YearsHalf Hours Author:Goran Visnjic
“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.” IfsMenYearsFirstsUseUsedThreeHouseGivenTakenFieldsReturnGardenClaimsPossessionOwnersThree Years Author:Hammurabi
“I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.” WantFeelsFirstsUsedThreeBitsTakenDrugEssentialsTablesDinnerAlcoholFeel GoodCardsUsed To BeLuxurySmokeLunchCigaretteReally GreatPatchesJunkieGumGreat DayI Feel GoodNicotineCigs Author:Johnny Depp
“The natal chart is like a seed and progressions are the unfolding in time of that into the plant it is to become. Transits, are like a daily weather report. In political astrology, these three factors have to be taken into account!” PoliticalThreeTakenAccountsPlantSeedsWeatherFactorsReportsAstrologyProgressionUnfoldingNatal Author:Alice O. Howell
“In an industry afflicted by sequelitis, it has taken John Boorman almost three decades to make the sequel to his much-cherished Hope and Glory, but Queen and Country turns out to be well worth the wait.” WellsCountryTurnsThreeWaitingTakenIndustryGloryDecadesQueensSequelsWorth The Wait Author:Joe Morgenstern
“The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.” TwoStatesGovernmentPoliticalOrderThreeEconomyTakenMilitaryBalanceHundredWeakCorporationsFeaturesGiantsExpensiveProductiveExecutivesFedsEstablishmentDozenUnitsDistrustCordsMilitiaSlimAutonomousSpinal Cord Author:C. Wright Mills
“I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.” ThinkingYearsThreeDecisionTakenFourDesignRationalLogicalFour YearsGiftedAnalyzingPros And ConsRational Decisions Author:Carlos Ghosn
“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.” WorldWayYearsBookHardHandsCareTodayRememberThreeNextChanceExistenceTakenPoetReaderSkillsMouthsTownsLuckOne WayReviewsRomeThree YearsSmall TownFellowshipPrintedOld DaysLuck And SkillPrinted Books Author:Randall Jarrell
“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.” PeopleKnowsWayFirstsMeanSaidTwoUseLawThreeFatherTakenDoubtFiguresFieldsHabitAbuseObviousObservationSpeakersQuotationsToilRemarksWhen In DoubtWildeBernard ShawUse And Abuse Author:Nigel Rees
“Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us, not one could be the citizen of a government so constituted; for Washington and Franklin and Jefferson, certainly the three mightiest leaders in our early history, were heretics in their day, Deists, as men called them; and Garrison and Lincoln and Sumner, certainly the three mightiest in these later times, would all be disfranchised by the proposed amendment. Lincoln could not have taken the oath of office had such a clause been in the Constitution.” MenDoneGovernmentAmericaJoyThreeLeaderWonderTakenAtheismCitizensOfficeSixConstitutionPositive AtheismAmendmentsOathFranklinHereticX MenClausesDeistOath Of Office Author:John Chadwick
“I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.” WayTwoDifferentSongThreeTakenDifferent WaysCoveredSugarReally DeepDeep Meaning Author:Jack White
“You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.” BookThreeForgetHealingCasesTakenFourMinutesTenDoctorsSickDollarsMedicineMedicalPhysiciansLecturesDissection Book:FRESH LEAVES Source: FRESH LEAVES
“For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.” IfsThinkingHas BeensThreeCoursesTakenFiveFourNew YorkAddGlassesProofIceEveningParisDryCulinaryIngredientsBottlesAirplaneTwistedLiquidLemonsGinScotchBlandCubesBombayShakersSapphires Author:Isaac Stern
“If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.” IfsKnowsShouldYearsHeartThreeJesusChristBrainTakenJesus ChristWitAll TimeAccentsRepetitionPulpitOutputEpigramsIncessantRetorts Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.” IfsTwoThreeChanceViewsStepsTakenDyingMy FamilyPoisonSecondsUsualStaff Author:Erwin Rommel
“Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for Seesaw Girl, eight months for Shard, three years for When My Name Was Keoko! The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.” WritingYearsBookDifferentGirlThreeNamesHalfTakenFourMonthsEightLengthThree YearsFour YearsPublishersPublishAnother YearSeesaw Author:Linda Sue Park
“So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break us down. You think it isn’t true? The three-strike rule is to break down a black man.” PeopleMenWayDifferentThreeBlackCommunityBreakTakenStrikesOne WaySectionsBreaking DownOur CommunityRepresentingThree Strikes Author:Snoop Dogg
“It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.” IfsWayYearsLooksHas BeensSaidDoneHomeBigsThreeEasySimpleNumbersTakenFiveAdviceNew YorkHundredRedFormerHopefullyManagersFive YearsHallsNo BrainerGeneral Manager Author:Roger Clemens
“Three factors--the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at work--have taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.” ChildrenCareThreeBeliefHalfSupportTakenEconomicHigherHusbandMarriedFemaleMalesDivorceFactorsWagesExesMarried WomenChild CareEx Husband Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild
“An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.” IfsWayFeelsYearsFirstsChildrenLongTwoSelfFeelingsThreeGoalStepsTakenConscienceShameGuiltTwo YearsThree YearsFirst StepsLong WayPolicemenAnticipateReproachDisapprovalThree Year OldsTwo Year OldsGuilt Feelings Author:Selma Fraiberg
“If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.” IfsWritingTwoUseActionOrderThreeStuffSimpleForgetBusinessTakenWrittenWeekHavensValuableCardsProductiveAssetsForget It Author:Seth Godin
“Markets cant think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.” ThinkingLongImportantThreeTermTakenMonthsImportant ThingsLong TermThings In LifeCantMarketplaceThree Months Author:Susan George
“When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.” YearsFactsThreeChallengesCitiesStepsTakenTeamPrideTypeProudDeserveYears AgoDeterminationAcceptedIntenseNbaThree YearsChampionshipBullsNba Championships Author:Doug Collins
“They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in dealing with his family, because we are human. Saddam has three young ladies and they have children, I have five, Rana has four, and Hala has two. Therefore, our father is very dear to us. His grandchildren love him a lot. Why aren't humanitarian factors taken into account?” ThinkingShouldHumansChildrenTwoYoungThreeFatherTakenFiveFourRightsConcernAccountsDearHuman RightsDetailsHumanitarianFactorsGrandchildrenSaddamOur FatherChildren LoveYoung Ladies Author:Raghad Hussein
“Just driving I just was in a car on flat ground and I couldn't make it go. Having ticked driving and taken three driving lessons, I just was unable to produce any motion whatsoever under perfectly normal circumstances. I think we've all been busted on driving, and riding.” ThinkingThreeTakenCarProduceCircumstancesLessonsNormalDrivingFlatsRidingBustedPerfectly Normal Author:Colin Firth
“Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.” Has BeensShowsThreeCausesStuffMillionsStudyTakenDiseaseHundredDiscoveryMedicineUselessSurgeryPreventionNineteenBacteriaNew Discoveries Author:Thomas A. Edison
“I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.” WayFeelsShouldHas BeensI CanThreeCan DoTakenProveShould HaveShould Have BeenCan't ChangeProve Myself Author:Clinton Portis
“For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.” SpiritualThreeMoralStepsTakenDevelopmentPerceptionEvery StepMoral Development Author:Rudolf Steiner
“Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better.” PeopleShowsThreeMillionsTakenPhotographCentsUnnecessaryPyramidsPostcards Author:Edouard Boubat
“I'm living the dream. I've got a big tour bus, an incredible band, a big house, and a family that are all taken care of through my music. I've got a beautiful wife and three beautiful kids.” DreamBigsCareKidsBeautifulThreeHouseTakenWifeBandIncrediblesBusBig HousesLiving The DreamBeautiful Wife Author:Aaron Watson