Three Quotes

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.

~ Alicia Keys

I get up in the morning. I usually do a radio interview early in the morning. I usually do a book signing, because I'm also a cookbook author, so I'm at some store, at a Walmart or a Williams Sonoma, for three hours, standing up, signing autographs, and taking pictures for three hours.

~ Trisha Yearwood

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

~ Haruki Murakami

I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.

~ Corey Taylor

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

~ Erin Gray

The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.

~ Barton Gellman

Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame are not normal, everyday malware, of course. All three of them were most likely developed by a Western intelligence agency as part of covert operations that weren't meant to be discovered. The fact that the malware evaded detection proves how well the attackers did their job.

~ Mikko Hypponen

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

~ Pope John Xxiii

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.

~ Mark Frost

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

~ Ryszard Kapuściński

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

~ Eli Wallach

The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

~ Lajos Kossuth

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

~ Mark E. Smith

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

~ Aarti Sequeira

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.

~ Philip Kerr

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.

~ David Attenborough

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

~ Sydney Smith

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

~ Spiro T. Agnew

No matter what, I'm trying to have fun and, depending on the mood, fun can be on a roller coaster and playing onstage, or fun can be sitting in a room with three of your best friends talking for two hours.

~ Shawn Mendes

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

~ Arthur C. Clarke

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

~ Nia Vardalos

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

~ Edmund Morgan

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

~ Bill Gates

I have an amazing wife and three daughters that always keep me motivated.

~ Jose Andres

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

~ Henry Kissinger

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive.

~ Gil Scott-Heron

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'

~ Sophia Loren

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever.

~ Charles Duke

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

~ Plato

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

~ Auguste Comte

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

~ Irving Babbitt

When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

~ Steven Wright

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

~ Ron Reagan