Two Quotes

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.

Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.

I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.

And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,” he said. “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'”

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.

That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only.

No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if all three, what if two eggs, what if one - you discuss every scenario.

The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.

Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket.

In a blackout, a Polish man was stuck on an escalator for two hours. I asked him, "Why didn't you walk down?" He said, "because I was going up!"

I call my lawyer and say, 'Can I ask you two questions?' He says, 'What's the second question?'

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.

The remedy now is two scotches and an aspirin, I think.

There's two approved methods for getting a pedicure for a guy. Number one, you use your own grinder or... You have an eighteen year-old Vietnamese girl rub your feet and call you Joe and that's it!

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

The two championship years were that significant for me.

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

I'm a military baby, and it makes me proud to know that I'm the child of two parents that served our country. I feel very connected to our country, and I'm honored to be an American.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

One or two of their players aren't getting any younger