#quarters

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 love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#going #great #great pride #halfway #i

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. ↗

— Henry Villard

#acted #career #danger #field #general

The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#am #assigns #certain #doors #gentleman

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#i #instrument #probably #songs #three-quarters

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished. ↗

— Black Elk

#again #back #came #changed #dancing

We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow. ↗

— Klement Gottwald

#headquarters #moscow #our #party #proletariat

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#contact #never #off #only #quarters

Love is three quarters curiosity. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#love #love is #quarters #three

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone. ↗

— Esther Williams

#back #became #business #had #headquarters