Quotes of: Four Keyword

For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one like hunting or fighting. It may be a common religion, common studies, a common profession, even a common recreation. A...

The Four Loves

In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades and go to bed for three or four days. I'd get up to shit. I'd eat a can of beans, go back to bed, just stay there for three or four days. Then I'd pu...

Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

A loud boom exploded the air, making Thomas jump. It was followed by a horrible crunching, grinding sound. He stumbled backward, fell to the ground. He wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't seen it for himself. The enormous stone wall to the right o...

The Maze Runner

The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to...

The Last Four Things

Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the wor...

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Me and the folks who buy my food are like the Indians -- we just want to opt out. That's all the Indians ever wanted -- to keep their tepees, to give their kids herbs instead of patent medicines and leeches. They didn't care if there was a Washington...

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Four Day’s Four Night’s My desire her eyes Her attention my life I claim she refuses..! In the passion of hope I was All day all night Her ignorance my fall I like rides so I moved I know now she wants After immense instance We met With less in w...

Rocky13

(Popular singer Eddie Fisher, appearing on This is Show Business, told Kaufman that women refused to date him because he looked so young.) Mr. Fisher, on Mount Wilson there is a telescope that can magnify the most distant stars up to twenty-four time...

George S. Kaufman

Boss Tweed: Bill, I can't get a days work done for all the good citizens coming in here to harass me about crime in the Points. Some even go so far as to accuse Tammany of connivance in this so-called rampant criminality. What am I to do? I can't hav...

Gangs of New York

Almost four hundred years is quite a lot to take even if you moisture regulary

City of Heavenly Fire

Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest.

A Dangerous Path

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

Four & Twenty Blackbirds

Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

Four Ways to Forgiveness

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

Four Quartets

What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.

Four Spirits

It is better to take the other road, even if it's longer. Get a car, maybe" Green Eyes

Four Doors and Other Stories

In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble is always with the swiftest.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ