Three famous quotes

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
-- A. E. Housman

#Ignorance #Long #Three

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Book #Reading #Three

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'
-- Aaron Levie

#Three #Asking #Brilliant

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
-- Abby Sunderland

#Three #Stories #Building

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
-- Abdallah II

#Three #Looks #Jerusalem

You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Son #Play #Three

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
-- Adam Ant

#People #Three #Records

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
-- Adam Jones

#Three #Band #Grunge

Ive only dressed in drag three or four times.
-- Adam Lambert

#Three #Four #Drag

My first album was completed in three months.
-- Adam Lambert

#Albums #Three #Months

If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.
-- Adam Rayner

#Three #Deals #Offers

The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.
-- Adam Rex

#Acceptance #Snacks #Three

QUOTES BOUQUET: Three Things You Should Never Sacrifice: Family, Heart And Dignity
-- Adnan

#Heart #Sacrifice #Three

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
-- Adolf Galland

#Three #Today #Driven

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
-- Adolf Galland

#Three #Delay #Offensive

And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares

#Writing #Three #Diaries

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
-- Adora Svitak

#Reading #Three #Able

I love Pilates, I really do, and I do it three times a week because it works well for me.
-- Aerin Lauder

#Three #Pilates #Week

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.
-- Agnetha Faltskog

#Albums #Three #Enough

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
-- Al Gallagher

#Baseball #Order #Three

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
-- Alain Prost

#Three #Four

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.
-- Alan Arkin

#Two #Three #Busy

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
-- Alan Ball

#Three #Pages #Reason

10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?
-- Alan Coren

#War #Bed #Three

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Government #People #Three

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
-- Albert Camus

#Lying #Three #Used

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.
-- Albert Camus

#Suicide #Passion #Three

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
-- Albert Einstein

#Stupidity #Greed #Three

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
-- Albert Ellis

#Encouragement #Growth #Three

Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.
-- Albert Wynn

#Running #Cells #Three

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.
-- Alberto Fujimori

#Two #People #Three

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Civilization #Three #Debt

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
-- Aldous Huxley

#War #People #Three

There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Men #People #Three

The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
-- Alex Ferguson

#Careers #Three #Knighthood

It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.
-- Alex Rodriguez

#Games #Two #Three

In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.
-- Alex Shoumatoff

#Three #Cranes #Continents

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.
-- Alexander Kluge

#Long #Three #Lines

The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Time #Groups #Three

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Three #Older Sister #Large Family

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
-- Alexander Payne

#Thinking #Three #Peter

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember
-- Alexandra Adornetto

#Quality #Three #Lines

Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration.
-- Alexei Panshin

#Three #Four #Celebration

Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.
-- Alfred Bester

#Eight #Two #Three

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
-- Alfred Brendel

#Hands #Play #Three

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Three #Needs #Scripts

She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Three #Pace #Rooms

You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.
-- Alfred Molina

#Air #Feet #Three

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Men #Together #Three

A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Lazy #Three #Action

A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Islamic #Three

Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.
-- Ali Larijani

#Iran #Three #Letters

I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.
-- Ali Larter

#My Boyfriend #Three #Tomorrow

I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.
-- Ali MacGraw

#New York #Careers #Three

Though I am born into a film family, I hardly had much exposure to shooting during my growing years. My first film actually taught me about the breakdown of shots in a film. My aim is to do three memorable roles in the next five years; films I can be really proud of. And I want to work with the best.
-- Alia Bhatt

#Memorable #Years #Three

Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.
-- Alice Englert

#Lunch #Three #Months

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
-- Alice Sebold

#Children #Two #Three

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
-- Allen Tate

#Dream #Three #May

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
-- Allen Tate

#Two #Quality #Three

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto

#Years #Two #Three

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Cities #Two #Three

Don't ever spend more than three weeks apart. Two and a half weeks, maybe three, was the longest we ever did.
-- Alyson Hannigan

#Two #Advice #Three

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
-- Alyson Noel

#Art #Life Changing #Three

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.
-- Alyson Noel

#Wise #Native American #Three

I took prenatal yoga three times a week, including the morning I went into labor. It helped me stay comfortable.
-- Alyssa Milano

#Morning #Yoga #Three

Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.
-- Amanda Beard

#Three #Want #Pool

It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!
-- Amber Benson

#Reality #Interesting #Three

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Disappointment #Years #Three

me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Ego #Three #Pronouns

picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Art #Two #Three

When Shah Rukh stated, “Bhootnath... will be among the top three hits of the year!”, I told him, “Aapke moonh mein dudh, ghee, shakkar sab!
-- Amitabh Bachchan

#Years #Three

Anyone know any long-term couples living three time zones apart?
-- Amy Argetsinger

#Couple #Long #Three

Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
-- Amy Carmichael

#Three #Kind #Said

I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.
-- Amy Hempel

#Giving #Mind #Three

I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of super steep hills and flat areas. He's always running ahead, which helps me push myself, especially up the hills.
-- Ana Ortiz

#Running #Dog #Three

How do you keep cheer when you go from beautiful to bald in three days?
-- Ananda Shankar Jayant

#Beautiful #Cheer #Three

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
-- Anatole Broyard

#Book #Three #Should

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.
-- Anatole Broyard

#Hero #Character #Three

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
-- Andre Malraux

#Important #Three #Figures

The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.
-- Andreas Katsulas

#Years #Three #Guarantees

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?
-- Andrew Clements

#Life #Two #Three

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.
-- Andrew Greeley

#War #Three #World

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Balance #Trying #Three

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.
-- Andy Richter

#Watches #Four Seasons #Three

Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans dont like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.
-- Andy Stern

#Successful #Government #Three

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party
-- Andy Warhol

#Party #Two #Three

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons
-- Angela Bassett

#School #Three #Want

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.
-- Angela Merkel

#Childhood #Three #Stories

I like lots of things. But there are three things I like most. Love, love and love.
-- Anita Ekberg

#And Love #Three

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
-- Anita Roddick

#Ideas #Entrepreneur #Three

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.
-- Ann Brashares

#Grief #Three #Rooms

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Memories #Iron #Three

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.
-- Anna Friel

#Children #Years #Three

Henman and Coria have met three times in the past and they've won one apiece.
-- Annabel Croft

#Past #Tennis #Three

It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.
-- Anne Bernays

#Writing #Sound #Three

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
-- Anne Lamott

#Past #Three

When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
-- Anne Lamott

#Three #Be Kind #Praying

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.
-- Anne Lamott

#Prayer #Essentials #Three

I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice.
-- Anne Robinson

#Nice #Men #Three

Three cheers for Sheriff Wilson. - Bucky Dideron
-- Annette Curtis Klause

#Cheer #Three #Sheriffs