#third

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#best #energy #get #ink #intellectual

The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games. ↗

— John Hume

#achievement #achievements #avoided #before #complete

For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to play. The rest of the time he's very much into Katniss, and for that to get turned around and to play it the other way, that's going to be very exciting. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#book #brainwashed #capitol #exciting #fun

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#built-in #first #i #i see #neutral

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#goes #i #i love #i wish #less

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer. ↗

— Joan Baez

#first #folk #folk singer #human #human being

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank. ↗

— Samantha Barks

#around #bank #birthday #check #first

In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#coup #coups #essentially #military #opened

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third. ↗

— Kit Bond

#administration #business #businesses #family #generation

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters. ↗

— George Brett

#designated #first #hitters #old #third