Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
John Updike

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord Byron

I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.
Robert Mondavi

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal

I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.
Paul Gascoigne

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
P. J. O'Rourke

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
Meryl Streep

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
Meryl Streep

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
James Whistler

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
Dave Barry

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.
Dave Barry