Best 3075 quotes in «three quotes» category

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

A new survey says one in three adults will be dressing up for Halloween. As for me, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going as Congress.

Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.

An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get 10 pages a day, and then there were days when I would do three pages. Depends on the thickness of the material. If it's satisfying, it's hard, but it's pretty wonderful.

Any manager will tell you that they would rather win one and lose two than to draw three, because you get more points

Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

Anyone know any long-term couples living three time zones apart?

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.

Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.

Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.

Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.

Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are not going to get some sort of political statement or ultra-deep message.

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.

A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.

"Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?" "I live." "Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more - with one word you will make me weep.

A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it.

Are you afraid of me? Uh... yes.' The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.

Arrested Development never felt safe. Even the first season, we did thirteen episodes, and we thought we'd never do a back nine. So I never thought in a million years we'd get to make three seasons. I was happy we got that far. I thought it was really good, and I'm really proud of it. I don't think we made a bad episode.

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.

As an actor if you're working you're usually in three places, you're either prepping something, you're shooting something, or you're post on something or promoting something.

Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments.

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

As an actor, throughout three years, I've become more comfortable within my own skin and confident.

As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

A scientific or technical study always consists of the following three steps: 1. One decides the objective. 2. One considers the method. 3. One evaluates the method in relation to the objective.

As badly as I want a medal, I know there is a lot of luck involved in that. I want to put myself in position to be in the top three, give it my all and hope luck comes my way.