Four Quotes

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.

There are four basic food groups: plain chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate.

If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

This is the best club in the world with the best fans, so I'm very proud to be a Liverpool player for the next four years and hopefully even longer.

It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.

BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

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

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.

I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.

My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

I just live one day at a time.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds.

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

One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people.

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

[T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time to meditate. (140)

The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.