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  • Because there are no fours.

    "Jason Collins jerseys, four-pointers and other NBA conspiracies" by Hunter Felt, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2014.
  • I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.

    Music   Three   Way  
    Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.322, Simon and Schuster
  • The indignity of it!- With everything blooming above me, Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate,- Me down in the fetor of weeds, Crawling on all fours, Alive, in a slippery grave.

    Weed   Rose   Lovely  
    Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.71, Anchor
  • The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "Good Ship Jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since.

    Jesus   Men   Europe  
    Source: teachingamericanhistory.org
  • Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers.

    Death   Time   Block  
    John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”
  • One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

    Work   Reading   Crawling  
  • The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move on all fours, to climb, to keep balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim.

    Running   Strong   Moving  
  • And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.

    Tea   Rooms   Fours  
  • Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story will evolve, but as storytelling animals, we will no more give it up than start walking on all fours.

    Reality   Animal   Games  
  • A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours ... When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle.

    Israel   Land   Roaches  
    New York Times, April 14, 1983.
  • Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

  • Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

    Book   Reading   Use  
    Sir John Denham (1719). “Poems and Translations: With The Sophy, a Tragedy. Written by the Honourable Sir John Denham, ...”, p.94
  • The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks up the solo and plays it back at 'em, it was the imitation of the human dialogue. It was how people spoke, through music.

    Play   Ideas   People  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

    Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron) (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.203
  • Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

    Views   Might   Danger  
  • Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.

    Mean   Atheism   Orbit  
  • He raped me … he fondled me, he put me on all fours, and had sex with me.

    Sex   Fours  
    "Exclusive: Anne Heche Interview" by Rebecca Raphael, abcnews.go.com.
  • Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.

    Cigar   Peanuts   Boxes  
    Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.92, Penguin
  • I hung out with some crazy desert people. One guy was just walking around with only shorts on - he'd been walking with bare feet for the last two years. He was totally scarred and eating on all fours like a dog.

    Dog   Crazy   Years  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

    Golf   Men   Two  
    P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

    Art   Men   Long  
    1939 In Forum and Century magazine, Jun.
  • There are some closed doors we’re so frightened of opening that we don’t see them any more. We’ve pushed furniture in front of them; we’ve jammed the lock. Children are the only ones who might crouch down on all fours to stare at the red glow coming from under the door, as they wonder what lies behind it. But Vango had always been afraid of the glow.

    Children   Lying   Doors  
  • From the three, you then use one to make eight ones. You add those ones to the three, and you get one-three base eight, or, in other words, In base ten you have eleven, and you take away seven. And seven from eleven is four. Now go back to the sixty-fours, you're left with two.

    Two   Eight   Add  
  • When a doting person gets down on all fours and plays with a puppy's rubber mouse, for instance, it only confuses the young dog and gives him a sense of insecurity. He gets the impression that his world is unstable, and wonders whether he is expected to walk on his hind legs and learn to smoke cigars.

    Funny   Dog   Play  
    "The Trickiest Thing in Feathers".
  • I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

    Thinking   Nuts   Three  
  • ... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.

    Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.290, Penguin
  • After I had my dream, I got into numerology. Like my buddy's name is Bill, and I would say, "B is a two, and each I is a nine, and the L's are fours. And that's eight." I would figure out everybody's numerological single-digit number.

    Dream   Eight   Names  
    Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.
  • The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

    Men   Sight   Lunch  
  • I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical’… ‘What luck! Here’s a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.’ A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention.

    Fall   Eye   Thinking  
    Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.60, Open Road Media
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