Fourth Quotes - Page 24

• The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Joy, Serenity, Tea

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.67, Penguin

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• We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

  Milan Kundera

  Eye, People, Dreamer

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• Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we had on last year was considered filler until we could get to the good stuff. It was meant to hopefully get us to January andor to November. To get past baseball. But (it) didn't work very well.

  Mike Darnell

  Baseball, Fall, Reality

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• Why should people be afraid that we use a few small pellets of uranium at the nuclear power plant in Bataan? Don't they know that we're surrounded by uranium? We have the world's fourth largest deposits of uranium. Yes, we're all radioactive -- must be the reason why we have so many faith healers!

  Imelda Marcos

  People, Nuclear, Use

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• If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Fall, Men, Jumping

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• I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.

  Monica Ali

  Leaving, Brain, Asking

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• Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Men, Victory

  Leon Trotsky (1999). “The Transitional Program & the Struggle for Socialism”, p.59, Resistance Books

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• Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

  Thomas Hardy

  Three, Sake, Quarters

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.146, Xist Publishing

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• As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Past, Giving

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book 5, Section 15), 44 BC.

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• What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Graduation, Learning, School

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

  Colm Toibin

  Book, Important, Thirds

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• As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.

  James Wolcott

  Stars, Dimensions, Clicks

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• My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Father, Thieves

  "Are we ever going to make this picture?". Interview with Alex Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2003.

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• I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

  Adam Savage

  Children, Church, Generations

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• I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

  Jose Saramago

  Mistake, School, Writing

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• Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Cutting, America

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Making Love, Mind, Shade

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman: A Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, Long, Decision

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• If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Cities, House

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.159, UNM Press

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• A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.

  Toby Keith

  Eye, July, Light

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• Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list. It was a very long and very green night.

  William Goldman

  Night, Long, People

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.

  Kevin Powers

  Memories, Powerful, School

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• When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.

  Douglas Adams

  Past, Car, Feelings

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Past, Men, Unhappy

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