Two Quotes

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.

Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.

I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.

There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!

When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years.

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two.

If I could have picked two guys on the planet, to have some exposure to at that age, those were the two right guys [Phil Woods and Charles McPherson].

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it - two power - crazed magicians killed, a hundred power - crazed magicians saved.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.

I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every night." It's so dark and so bottomless.

It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?

Two or three tons of rock can really get you down-and keep you there.

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.

No two wars are identical.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.