I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.

I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.

Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times.

I was shocked, and I ended up contacting three academics to find out if it could possibly be that my grandmother was a courtesan.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.

I think I was technically uncredited as Local #1, because there were three of us. But I had the most lines [in My Sweet Charlie].

Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?

When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months."

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

I try to walk at least three times a week for 40 minutes or an hour. I do it at the gym on the treadmill, or I go hiking outside.

There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart

In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

I did boxing for three years, and that was very nice. It's a hard but great, great sport. I really love the training aspect of it.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Howard Dean is a politician, a medical doctor and a Democrat. So he has three reasons to tell women to take off their clothes now.

I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.

At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

I’ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I’ve got all three, and it’s never helped me.

Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, you are not leading well.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

There’s nothing you can learn in three years studying media at university that you can’t learn in just one month on a local paper.

I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

For 'Rakht Charitra,' I had to gain and lose weight. I simultaneously shot the film in three languages - Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

Personally, it’s rude. You got three kids with the lady, she just did 17 years for you and you’re not gonna leave your...whatever!

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions.

I feel like there are only three ultimate things you can do while you're here: do what you love, love somebody, and create a life.

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