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Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. -- Gioachino Rossini
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. -- Simone Weil
Nickel for my thoughts, dimes in my bed. Quarters of the kush shape the lines in my head. -- Drake
Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters. -- Mike Tyson
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. -- Ramakrishna
In Elementary Music The Relation Of Earth To The Sphere of Water is 4 to 3, As There Are In The Earth Four Quarters of Frigidity to Three of Water. -- Robert Fludd
Daily hope is vital, since the "?Winter Quarters' of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on. -- Neal A. Maxwell
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games. -- Sarah Silverman
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed! -- Dr. Seuss
Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you. -- Blackbeard
I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. -- Tom T. Hall
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals. -- Paul Weyrich
Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? -- Steven Wright
There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. -- Franklin P. Adams
I dont think theres a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter. -- Glenn Danzig
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. -- Marcel Proust
Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century. -- Mike Ferguson
You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term. -- James Sinegal
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. -- William Lloyd Garrison
The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation. -- James Monroe
I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world -- Kathleen Turner
Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds. -- Black Elk
Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable. -- Marcel Proust
In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be ... -- Wallace Stevens
Love is three quarters curiosity. -- Giacomo Casanova
Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you. -- Edward Teach
You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you! -- Alex Trebek
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. -- George Bernard Shaw
God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out. -- Joel C. Rosenberg
You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters. -- Peyton Manning
I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here. -- Hugh Laurie
There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started. -- Gerard Arpey
I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. -- D. H. Lawrence
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. -- Aldous Huxley
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. -- Carolus Linnaeus
I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours. -- Marsha Thomason
I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful. -- Julie Burchill
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. -- Robert Grosseteste
Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where 'Frogger' gets replaced with 'Street Fighter 2' or 'Resident Evil 4.' -- Rob Manuel
Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble. -- Adam DeVine
Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong? -- Jeffrey Kluger
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer. -- Harbhajan Singh
I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.' -- Stephen Hunter
Morals are three-quarters manners. -- Felix Frankfurter
All about a dollar like four quarters. -- Lil Wayne
Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure? -- Joan Collins
Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense. -- Bill Laimbeer
Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters. -- F. R. Scott
We was half stupid, a third lucky, and three-quarters ferocious. -- Charlie Higson
Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat! -- Helen Reddy
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. -- Gioachino Rossini
Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about. -- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion. -- Beatrix Potter
My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese. -- Tom Shadyac
Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the 'Kazee' is not. -- Steve Kazee
A motel is where you give up good dollars for bad quarters. -- Henny Youngman
I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. -- Richard Thompson
Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness. -- Shmuley Boteach
Three quarters of the East Coast's refinery capability is located in the Philadelphia region. -- Robert Brady
In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping. -- Sophie Hannah
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. -- John Lubbock
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy. -- William H. Gass
'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters. -- Jay McInerney
I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain. -- Gene Perret
Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world. -- Ismail Haniyeh
Two quarters doesn't make a trend, but it's a heck of a lot better than none. -- Philip M. Condit
Be careful who you call your friends. Iâ??d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies. -- Al Capone
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters. -- Henry Kravis
You might be a redneck if three quarters of the clothes you own have logos on them. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do. -- Katy Butler
If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters! -- Charlie Munger
Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills. -- Michael T. Flynn
I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent. -- Jimmy Buffett
This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe. -- Peter Earle
I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones. -- Fannie Flagg
Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems. -- Helen Gahagan Douglas
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago. -- Juan Enriquez
The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes... -- Clemence Housman
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan. -- Barry Ritholtz
Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms. -- Robert Grosseteste
The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father. -- Lloyd Geering
...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely. -- Gordon Brown
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter? -- Thomas Hardy
Speaking of Quarterback nicknames, you hear they're calling Jay Cutler 50 cent? Because you only get two quarters out of him. -- Frank Caliendo
In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters. -- Jeffrey Sachs
Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action. -- Hugh Elliot
Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment. -- Luis de Guindos
We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops. -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes. "Not claustrophobic people, Tris. -- Veronica Roth
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Be cautious of who is holding your quarters because as soon as they get four quarters they will change them for a dollar. -- Alexis A. Davis
When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent. -- Bobby Flay
I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done. -- Pam Houston
To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson! -- Anna Seward
Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue. -- Jack McDevitt
The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there. -- Italo Calvino
If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land... -- Nichiren
Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping. -- Tsunetomo Yamamoto
One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting. -- Paul Gauguin
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection. -- Morris West
I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again. -- Catherine Ndereba
I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster. -- Glenn Healy
War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author. -- Kurt Vonnegut
We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe. -- Saul Perlmutter
We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe -- Saul Perlmutter
According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually -- Bill McKibben
Three-quarters of our sites - Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker - are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker Media. That's the career path. -- Nick Denton

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