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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
I told you, God is not coy. He's more likely to hit you across the forehead with a two-by-four than whisper in your ear
Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.
I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved.
I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!
I keep a pretty tight grip on my schedule and I compare it a lot to a fireman's - a four-on then four-off type of deal.
Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.
When I was young they used to call me 'The Foreman,' not because I was in charge but because I did the work of four men.
I see guys who can't make 10 percent of what I make, and yet they have four Bentleys, three houses, and four bodyguards.
I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.
On February 17th, Four weeks from [Barack Obama's] inauguration, he signed a bill which saved or created 4 million jobs.
For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.
Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.
I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!
I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.
I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile.
Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory.
When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.
There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
The Chichen Itza is just a pyramid with four sides, with stairs on each side leading to some kind of bungalow on the top.
I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.
Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.
The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.
'Flip' is an anthology of four short films, and I am in the one called 'Massage,' along with Sandeepa Dhar and Viraj Patel.
Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.
You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.
I have a personal trainer who comes over at least four times a week and kicks my butt. I get so sore that I can't even walk.
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.
You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.
When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.
If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.
I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.
What's the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Rick Perry? It only takes Lindsay four and a half hours to finish a sentence.
It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.
Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all.
I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.
On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.
You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.