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“Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.”

Years Littles Two House Names Four Mouths Rivers Miles Village Four Years Grandfather

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.”

“My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.”

Years Two Moving Left Parent Four Growing College Products Horror Areas Boxes Founders Dylan Juniors Non Stop Bay Area Junior Year

Author:Aaron Levie

“There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.”

Kind Two Helping Film House Rooms Fire Four Doors Figures Directors Plus Locks

Author:Michael Pitt

“I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.”

Two Action Film Used Three Hours Challenges Novel Four Cutting Pages Hundred Features Dramatic Adapting

Author:Tom Perrotta

“My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.”

Two Film Mother Actors Father Saws Four Week Grandfather My Grandfather Begging

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids.”

Two Kids Night Four Husband Dinner Cooks My Husband Every Night

Author:Lela Rose

“I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.”

Knows Firsts Two Might Three Four Player Winner Slam

Author:Patrick Rafter

“I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.”

World Two Stories Three Four Months Boxes Ships

Author:Steven Strait

“Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's lifetime, they might just open up two or three, maybe four of those bands.”

Persons Two Might Universe Three Four Awareness Buddhism Band Perception Lifetime Average Rings Within You Average Person

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.”

Two Play Jobs Father Given Four Air Feet Months Lows All Time Blonde Full Time Jobs All Time Low

Author:Jack Wagner

“To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.”

Knows World Giving Wells Two Enough Feelings Games Numbers Four Special Give Me International Ridiculous Satisfied Cups Injury Lions Setback World Cup Fulfilment

Author:Jonny Wilkinson

“I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.”

Children Two Four Tiny Grandchildren Grown Children

Author:Brock Yates

“I Am Number Four' definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Two Different Whole Would Be Jobs Numbers Four Boring Bunch Fantastic Genre Theme Just One Be Kind Stale

Author:Callan McAuliffe

“To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.”

Two Turns Three Steps Five Four Scene Down And Familiar Choreography

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.”

Ifs Men Two Different Would Be Morning Four Sea Block Abortion Salt Pregnant Flavor Airports Pills Starbucks Clinic Morning After

Author:Nasim Pedrad

“If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.”

Ifs Knows Men Two Four Argument Repeats

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.”

“There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?”

People Two Today Dies Four Planets Billions Volunteer Farming Organic Farming

Author:Norman Borlaug

“And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.”

Two Country Poor Millions Cases Five Four Industry Mediums France Peasants Belgium Switzerland Holland Scandinavians Scandinavia

Author:Herman Gorter

“Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.”

People Two Hours Four Complicated

Author:Robert Maxwell

“I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.”

Trying Persons Two Funny Four Blood Dog Veins Puppy Cute Puppy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)

“Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.”

Littles Made Two Country Together Lying Animal Four Becoming Creatures Greed Hungry Plenty Dirty Islands Flood

Author:Black Elk

“I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.”

“Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.”

Looks Two Might Four Generations Twenties Eight Clarity Thirty Rising Adolescence Mist Eighteen Discerning Twenty Two Thirty Eight Four Generations

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.”

Thinking Knows Two Five Four Conservative Unhappy Radical

Author:Herbert V. Prochnow

“I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.”

Two Girl Women Four Thirty Seventeen

Author:Fred Allen

“I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.”

Giving Two Five Four Fine Mathematics Agree Dues Excellent Fine Things

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.”

Two Faces Grace Four Sweet Ten Fairs Shining Wit Goddess Charming Muse Adore Venus Stella Cyprus

Author:Callimachus

“It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.”

Should Two War Three Mistake Four March Wrong Direction

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.”

Thinking Should Years Two Four Honest Voting Two Years Four Years Governors

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it on to others. We ought to have four ears,- two for ourselves, and two for other people. My Bible is worth a good deal to me because I have so many passages marked that, if I am called upon to speak at any time, I am ready. We ought to be prepared to pass around heavenly thoughts and truths, just as we do the coin of the realm.”

People Ifs Two Ends Christian Speak Growth Views Deals Study Grace Four Ready Ought Ears Prepared Passing Passings Realms Heavenly Passages Be Prepared Coins Passing It

Book:Talks to Christians

Source: Talks to Christians

“I had no idea that marriage was only supposed to be between two people who wanted to get between the sheets and make more people. What ever happened to marrying for love— or to get on your partner’s health insurance policy, or for presents? No one was going to buy two people in their thirties a four-slice toaster if we just continued to live in sin.”

People Ifs Two Ideas Wanted Sin Four Happened Policy Partners Supposed To Be No Idea Sheets Marrying Toasters Insurance Policy

Book:I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids

Source: I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids

“Sizeism = like racism, only against people who aren't a size two or four.”

People Two Four Racism Size

Author:Lauren Barnholdt

“I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing.”

Should Writing Firsts Two School Lasts Voice Four Minutes Terrible Drama Seven My Best Friend Gigs Gags

Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with.”

Two Four Bottom Studios Flight Obsessed Flats Stairs Landlord Staircases

Author:Craig Stone

“I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl, or Elmo, or Yogi Bear and Booboo. If we didn't do it, she would scream at us. So, my wife and I would have adult conversations as Yogi Bear and Booboo. It was just a nightmare year.”

Ifs Years Two Voice Half Four Wife Bears Conversation Adults My Wife Nightmare Scream Woody Yogi Cowgirls Elmo Yogi Bear

Author:Judd Apatow

“Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.”

Two Soul Four Sweet Pure Kissing Lips Affection Ingredients Pure Soul

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just as mightily in the service of wonder and the two elements are complementary, not independent or opposed. The thought fills me with awe - a mechanical contraption that could fit in the back of a pickup truck, traveling through space for twelve years, dodging around four giant bodies and their associated moons, and finally sending exquisite photos across more than four light-hours of space from the farthest planet in our solar system.”

Years Two Body Light Hours Space Wonder Four Planets Fit Moon Elements Intellectual Independent Worthy Giants Awe Twelve Truck Exquisite Solar System Complementary Pickups Pickup Trucks

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Even God cannot make two times two not make four.”

Author:Hugo Grotius

“We live in Los Angeles, where you are expected to move every two to four years, so people can see how well your career is going.”

People Years Wells Two Moving Careers Four Expected Los Angeles Where You Are Four Years

Book:Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

“Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.”

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.”

Way Years Long Two Seems President Four Information Produce Members Work Out Length Broads Four Years Ancestor Doomed Elders Whales Cabinets Breadth Acres Footnotes Whirlpools

Author:Will Cuppy

“From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.”

Two Bigs Faces Night Four One Thing Heard Wind Towns Mobile Memphis

Author:Johnny Mercer

“The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true - although it sounds good! - but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.”

Ifs Knows Littles Two Ends Hands Parent Sound Black Four Taught The End Of The Day Pairs Frozen Skates Rumours Two Sisters

Author:Bobby Hull

“There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.”

Knows Writing Firsts Two Book Character Three Literature Left Bits Four Months Late Lovely Too Late Plot Left Out New Books Lovely Things Before It's Too Late

Author:Terry Pratchett

“And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to take this all in I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to taste the difference 'tween a lemon and a lime Pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.”

World Trying I Can Two Pain Three Differences Church Space Pleasure Five Four Football Taste Smell Senses Kicks Bells Lemons Five Senses Limes Chimes Tweens Church Bells

Author:Andy Partridge

“I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.”

Two Three Cities Four Daughter Busy Active Restaurants

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Way Feels Firsts Looks Two Real Beautiful Certain Difficult Clear Four Mystery Shapes Moon Objectives Awful Tonight Unreasonable Geometric Geometric Shapes

Author:William Baziotes

“Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.”

Children Two Character Four Huge Asking Casts Appeals These Days Publishers Maximum

Author:Kirby Larson