“At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."” TryingThreeNamesAddAccentsThree TimesLecturesAnna Author:Anais Nin
“Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.” SaidThreeSonThirdsAddIslandsTheologianTombsJupiterSaturnCrete Book:The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods Source: The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods
“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
“The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).” ImportantRealThreeTermPiecesPeriodsAddEstatesLocation Book:Money dynamics for the new economy Source: Money dynamics for the new economy
“A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do.” NeedsThreeBlackDarkClothesGreenAddMy FavoritePoundsInchesFifteenGownsTrimming Author:Buwei Yang Chao
“I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α , β, γ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".” ScienceThreeInvolvedMathematicsAddLawyerApplicationProbabilityCoinsPatentsAlgorithms Author:Jennifer Tour Chayes