Quarters – Quotes

The series of photographic

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour. Gabriel Lippmann

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well … Read more

If your life at

If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful. Euripides

Three-quarters of a soldier’s

Three-quarters of a soldier’s life is spent in aimlessly waiting about. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

We still do not

We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, … Read more

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs. Ernest Thompson Seton

For one quarter, Black

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal. Ernest Cline

I felt like a

I felt like a kid standing in the world’s greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play. Ernest Cline

When Ling was communicating

When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as ‘the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery’, and for this reason he was not always … Read more

People are always asking

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman. Erma Bombeck