Third Quotes

Howard Dean came in a disappointing third place. Afterwards Dean said 'Iowa is behind me and now I look forward to screaming at voters in New Hampshire.'

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

We are a debtor nation, our airports are third world, our highways are falling apart. Our roads, our bridges, everything, we're like third world.

We shared a philosophy together [with June Hillary]. We believed very strongly in the welfare of helping other people, particularly the Third World people.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.

If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?

I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends.

Third time pays for all

I see a sea of millions of people going down with their own negative thoughts, going down for the third time in this big sea of iniquity and negativity.

Nuclear weapons are to be worried about only when they're in the hands of Ronald Reagan - not so much when they're in the hands of a Third World anti-imperialist like Saddam Hussein. Can't you see?

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

Let the RINOs start a third party

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.

There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security.

Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look.

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the war, and - very much in third place - tax cuts.

Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.

Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with.

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.

As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up.

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

I didn't feel so different until maybe, like, around third grade. Kids started blaming me for my people killing Jesus.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.

For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.