Fourpenny Quotes

#1. And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#2. Bargain all you like. Consign yourself to the hangman if you must. The people don't give a fourpenny fuck.
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Hilary Mantel

#3. Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.

Dan Miller

#4. And besides, positing universe as program didn't seem to answer the Big Questions so much as kick them down the road another order of magnitude.

Peter Watts

#5. You look for those actors or actresses that fit the personality to populate the film.

Yuen Woo-ping

#6. Thinking these kinds of thoughts, feeling these kinds of feelings, it's more than disloyal. I know that. It's downright traitorous.

Jenny Han

#7. If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.

Marshall Brickman

#8. I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. Escape
from the power of the hunting pack,
and to know that wisdom is best
and beauty
sheer holiness.

Hilda Doolittle

#10. The only way I'd need a pain reliever to enjoy sex is if all of my fantasies came true at the same time.

Drew Carey

#11. When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

Richard Whately

#12. You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#13. There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important.

Peter Farrelly

#14. The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

William Hazlitt