#quarter

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter. ↗

— William Falconer

#burst #contrary #extensive #frequently #implies

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter. ↗

— Raul Julia

#buy #chicken #could #day #eat

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#character #consciousness #emphasized #intellect #last

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us. ↗

— Peter King

#arabia #as far as #dead #either #far

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#been #bombing #books #check #classroom

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#corporate #corporate america #everything #in my opinion #opinion

And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#around #assembly #church #churches #donate

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them. ↗

— Andrew Tobias

#back #been #book #century #done

It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows? ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#could #days #funny #go #halfway

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

#affected #born #brother #feeling #i