"It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years."
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"Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?"
"I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive."
"There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter."
"Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day."
"We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes."
"If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him."
"Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it."
"In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four."
"Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind."
"The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world."
"It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it."
"It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market."
"I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat."
"Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth."
"I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made."
"You say love is just a four letter word."
"If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein."
"Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia."
"I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days."