Three Quotes

A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.

~ Michael Greger

GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.

~ Robert Love

I've never been in the top three of Sports Personality. And I won't be in the top three again. You have just got to accept what it is.

~ Mo Farah

I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.

~ Alex Morgan

I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.

~ Rafael Nadal

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

~ James Jeans

In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of nearly three thousand additional objects, of which probably 80 percent or more will turn out to be other-worldly orbs.

~ Seth Shostak

Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure is on a much finer scale than any known subatomic particle. The structure could be of an exotic kind: extra dimensions, over and above the three that we are used to (up and down, backward and forward, left and right).

~ Martin Rees

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

~ Cyndi Lauper

Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.

~ Ellen Stofan

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

~ Chuck D

I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.

~ Rick Boucher

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters.

~ Tom Brokaw

When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards.

~ Isabella Rossellini

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

~ Tim O'brien

I left for New York three days after graduation.

~ Jenn Lyon

The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.

~ Robin Williams

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

~ Denis Diderot

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

~ Story Musgrave

One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.

~ Brian Greene

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

~ Russell Baker

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

~ Mark Frauenfelder

I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didn't wear off, but I found other interests.

~ Emun Elliott

Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown's teacher.

~ John Niven

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

~ Tom Ellis

In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.

~ Richard Engel

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

~ Chuck Tanner

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

~ Tracy Letts

Banks will fee you to death. If you bounce a check, the bank has a policy to re-post the check three more times to see if it will be paid. If it continues to bounce they charge a $30 overdraft every time. So, one bounced check will rack up $90 for the bank.

~ Jonathan Raymond

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

~ Stephen Hawking

When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.

~ David Blunkett

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

~ Frank Capra

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

~ Peter Warlock

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

~ Lisa Loeb

Country music is three chords and the truth.

~ Harlan Howard

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

~ Bill Bryson

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

~ Jane Fonda

I love to do three easy things in the morning: I'll wash my face, I usually tone it, and then I'll put a little bit of moisturizer on it - not tons, because I have really oily skin. I don't have specific products I'm obsessed with; I just try different things. That's how I've always been.

~ Selena Gómez