The Double Quotes

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine.

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout 'double life' situation, and for that, I am very grateful.

If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ?

If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

I will not calm down! Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards.

Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.

Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and theyll look at me like theyre trying to think where they know me from.

Computers double their performance every month.

I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.

Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don't accept.

I have really tried my best to ignore any double standard. I can't control the expectations of other people. I can control my attitude and my energy, and that's always been very positive.

A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard.

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.

I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.

Women all live a double standard.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.