Quotes with four-fifths

Quotes 181 till 200 of 218.

  • Carolina Herrera Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Bill Bruford We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carey Mulligan We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bobby Doerr We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Cab Calloway We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Nick Faldo We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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  • Burnie Burns We've always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Bob Seger We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Johnston We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
    over Le Corbusier
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Carl Stokes What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • O. S. Hawkins What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.
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  • Mark Twain When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carl Lewis When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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