Two Quotes

After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was nice enough to introduce me to his agent. That got my foot in the door.

Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in Sherlock's situations. As a writer, you have to be of two minds.

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.

I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.

Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

Now, two things happen. One is, people know people, whether that's on Facebook or Twitter. They feel closer to the event. Secondly, people see other people doing something about it.

Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.

Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.

After Luis Suarez of Uruguay bit an Italian opponent in the shoulder, two things happened. Suarez was thrown out of the rest of the tournament, and the player he bit turned Uruguayan.

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.

Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect

Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.

I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

I've been in relationships where we've said 'I love you' after two weeks.

There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral.

As long as I'm not taking a penalty we will be OK. But if it's like two years ago I will need a doctor.

You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.

Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.

What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.

I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between the two of us. "You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.

You can live a lifetime in two years.

My life was split by two worlds, but he kept me whole.

Well, I guess I can wait two weeks then." "for what?" "to ask her out

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected.... One was a wad of cash... she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!

Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years - or longer.

As for two years from now... who know where it'll be. I think we'll ideally be doing a lot of the same stuff, but maybe with spell checking.

Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

There are two ways to travel, first class or with children.