Four famous quotes

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
-- A. R. Ammons

#Stars #Four #Hundred

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.
-- Abraham H. Cannon

#President #Done #Four

I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
-- Adam Driver

#Lunch #Years #Four

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

#Three #Four #Drag

I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.
-- Adam Sandler

#Father #Four #Driving

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Years #Political #Four

We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.
-- Al Attles

#Sports #Defense #Four

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
-- Al Capone

#Four #Pennies #Hundred

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
-- Al Lopez

#Wall #Player #Four

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

#Three #Four

In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that's 12 goals conceded
-- Alan Brazil

#Work Out #Goal #Four

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
-- Alan Davies

#Book #Years #Four

The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
-- Alan Dean Foster

#Storm #Dieting #Four

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
-- Alan Jackson

#Baby #Boys #Four

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.
-- Alan Shepard

#Feet #Firsts #Four

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Coffee #Black #Four

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
-- Alastair Campbell

#People #Four #Mental Illness

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
-- Albert Camus

#Men #Two #Four

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
-- Albert Camus

#Doors #Four #Unhappiness

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
-- Albert Einstein

#Years #Bees #Four

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.
-- Albert Kesselring

#Wall #Age #Four

I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.
-- Alberto Salazar

#Running #Pace #Four

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
-- Aldous Huxley

#Truth #Two #Four

I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio

#Four #Want #Tiny

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.
-- Alex Ferguson

#Horse #Two #Four

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.
-- Alex Haley

#Spring #Village #Four

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again
-- Alexa Vega

#Thinking #Annoyed #Four

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
-- Alexander Skarsgard

#Thinking #Car #Four

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Paris #Pockets #Four

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

Survival is a four letter word.
-- Alexis De Veaux

#Survival #Four #Letters

Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
-- Alfred Binet

#Intelligent #Criticism #Four

She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.
-- Alice Cooper

#Insanity #Four

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
-- Alistair Sinclair

#Insomnia #Four #Causes

Good for him," Hale said. And then he stopped. There were four other people in the room, but Hale only looked at Kat, and something in his gaze burned her, froze her, made her want to run.
-- Ally Carter

#Running #People #Four

I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.
-- Amanda Seyfried

#School #Different #Four

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Time #Twenties #Four

After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding – I was fired today,
-- Andrew Mason

#Years #Half #Four

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.
-- Andrew Natsios

#People #Cost #Four

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

#Technology #Would Be #Four

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.
-- Andrew Stanton

#Two #Giving #Four

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
-- Andrew Wiles

#Four #Want #Infinity

Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.
-- Angeles Arrien

#Life #Attention #Four

I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.
-- Anna Chancellor

#Funeral #Four #Well Known

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.
-- Anna Chancellor

#Jobs #Play #Four

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.
-- Anna Friel

#Four #Rehearsal #Performances

Boyfriends have to understand my needs. I shower four times a day.
-- Anna Kournikova

#Needs #Four #Showers

I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.
-- Anne Lamott

#Law #People #Four

Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Son #Years #Four

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.
-- Anthony Marra

#Four #Fists #Language

You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world...
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Flower #World #Four

One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Sunset #One Day #Four

An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Wall #Pockets #Four

Two hands are better than four sometimes.
-- Antonia White

#Hands #Two #Four

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.
-- Aravind Adiga

#Cities #Grandfather #Four

He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.
-- Ardant du Picq

#Military #Men #Four

Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
-- Aristophanes

#Work #Circles #Four

Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.
-- Aristotle

#Science #Thinking #Four

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Bodybuilding #Three #Four

With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Children #Together #Four

Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.
-- Arnulf Rainer

#Art #Eye #Four

When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Art #Doctors #Four

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
-- Arthur Balfour

#World #Four #Volume

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Education #Years #Four

No trilogy should have more than four books.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Book #Writing #Four

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
-- Arthur Eddington

#World #Quests #Four

The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.
-- Arthur Rock

#Years #Four #Cost

About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?
-- Arthur Smith

#Years #Looks #Four

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.
-- Artur Davis

#Running #Years #Four

I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.
-- Ashley Scott

#Thinking #Four #Firsts

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
-- August Wilson

#Four #Influence #Borges

The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Perseverance #Attitude #Four

I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.
-- Ayelet Waldman

#Children #Pregnancy #Four

The four sweetest words in the English language — 'You wore me down.'
-- Aziz Ansari

#Four #Language #English Language

Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.
-- Babe Ruth

#Running #Home #Four

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
-- Barbara Cook

#Military #Afternoon #Four

If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Two #House #Four

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.
-- Barry McGuire

#Space #Four #May

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.
-- Bella Thorne

#Years #Three #Four

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Pride #Three #Four

The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred; ...
-- Bernard Bailyn

#Struggle #Years #Four

I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!
-- Bette Davis

#Husband #Party #Four

The only person I did bondage for was Irving Klaw and his sister Paula. Usually they would shoot four or five models every Saturday. He wouldn't pay for the regular pictures unless we did some bondage. So I did bondage shots to get paid for the other photos.
-- Bettie Page

#Pay #Four #Bondage

If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.
-- Bhakti Charu Swami

#Spiritual #Principles #Four

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
-- Bill Bryson

#Benefits #Four #Towns

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously. I'm good flying up to four hours, but anything past that, I want to kill myself.
-- Bill Burr

#Past #Flying #Four

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.
-- Bille August

#Television #Four #Jerusalem

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Kids #Four #Letters

So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.
-- Billy Sherwood

#Years #Tape #Four

On 'Lab Rats,' I read the script probably three or four times before we ever even do a table read because I want to be completely prepared. And I want to know exactly which beats I have to hit and where I need to make something comical. Some lines need a little more than others do just to get the point across, to get the joke to be funny.
-- Billy Unger

#Three #Needs #Four

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Giving Up #Believe #Four

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
-- Bo Jackson

#College #Years #Four

Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Years #Income #Four

One game can make a season, especially when you have just four wins going into the game.
-- Bob Dwyer

#Winning #Games #Four

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
-- Bob Newhart

#Years #Four #Littles

I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.
-- Bob Paisley

#Soccer #Effort #Four

Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
-- Bobby Flay

#Running #Get Better #Four

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
-- Bobby Knight

#Leadership #Sports #Four

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
-- Bobby Knight

#Basketball #Four #Importance

I just tape four Tylenols to it.
-- Boris Mironov

#Hockey #Tape #Four