A Quote by Rex Stout
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
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there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.
There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds.
I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.
There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.
Growing up, I wanted to make the kind of movies that would play in a multiplex, and those were the kinds of movies I ended up making.
There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.
Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and reality represents frustrations, chance illnesses, death, murder, and all kinds of other tragedies. Lovers are meant to look up at the sky, for up there no beautiful illusions can be trampled upon.
A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it
There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the second kind.
There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.
I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.
There are two kinds of trouble: The kind you have and the kind you haven't. There are but few of the first sort, but of the second there is no end.
There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.
There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze,
And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees.
Geezers might say, 'I wouldn't wear make-up even if I was going on TV,' but why not? You'll look better. I can most frankly be called a geezer - I've earned the right to be called a geezer, a proper stand-up guy, that kind of thing - and if I can wear make-up, so can you.'
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