Four Quotes

Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

I think the best comparable is Bryant Gumbel's "Real Sports," in the sense that it's quarterly as well. So that's what we're doing, a quarterly special, an hour, three to four stories each hour.

I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.

I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.

I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks and do stretches.

The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more.

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of the four words inscribed above the entrance of the Supreme Court building: Equal justice under law?

When I was four, I started taking lessons from my mom. That's pretty much how I started.

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

I would like to have three or four kids.

Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.

the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.

Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.

Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Yes. Yes. No. One time in high school. Three times in my twenties. Rocks no salt. Yes. Four. Never. And how dare you! I will take no further questions.

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

Being in this band [the Spice Girls] is like having four (three now) older sisters. They all look after me and I couldn't dream of leaving them.

You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed.

I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!

My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.

I ride my horses three to four times a week.

Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” is a brilliant movie. It’s about four hours long, but it’s so well done.

For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.

Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I'm obsessed with the Air Force.

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against.

I have a personal trainer who comes over at least four times a week and kicks my butt. I get so sore that I can't even walk.

I have a four-month-old and I also have a toddler, so that takes up all of my time.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world.

When you've got a date on your calendar saying that you will be putting this in front of people in four weeks, that will get your nerves good, yeah.

I've sort of done a play every four or five years I guess if I look back in my career. And I think that's good.

I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.