Three Quotes

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.

I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.

There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

We're born, we live, we die. The most important thing out of those three is to live your life the way you want to.

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.

I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.

The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.

It’s difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognize you from your work, or whether it’s just because you’re six foot three and have the eyebrows of Satan.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

I can double my density from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly.

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

A lot of blues guitarists play with only three fingers, and they can't figure out certain runs that require the use of their little fingers. Classical training is good for that.

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give.

Love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.