#quarters

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

#head #leave #moment #opinions #other

We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine. ↗

— James Stewart

#belonged #called #central #central park #diamond

Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment. ↗

— Luis de Guindos

#either #employment #fooled #going #growth

Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#million #palestinian #palestinian people #people #refugees

To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson! ↗

— Anne Seward

#criticism #derision #entering #exposed #female

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack. ↗

— Richard Stengel

#great #headquarters #incredibly #museums #number

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#clothes #dress #go #i #mask

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful. ↗

— David Zucker

#any #attract #audience #aware #been

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. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#anything #close #doing #i #mountains

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. ↗

— John Major

#clever #could #defect #half #many