#four

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #the-sign-of-four #materialism

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#big picture #down #down the road #four #hard

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#bad #body #contact #european #five

Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#four #hang #seconds #three #two

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. ↗

— William Adams

#between #cape #could #days #feet

I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance. ↗

— Joan Allen

#bar #circumstance #every #four #give

They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken. ↗

— Raymond Floyd

#call #four #golf #letter #other

I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#awhile #baywatch #been #did #five

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#book #choose #every #four #go

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister. ↗