Top 1200 Twenty-Two Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.

To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief; and I think no sensible man can wish for two within the limits of the present United Kingdom who does not wish the United Kingdom to become two or more nations, entirely separate from each other.

It makes a difference when you've got more than two months versus two weeks to train for a particular opponent.

To give you an idea of how fast we travelled - we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

I try and shoot as often as I can, I cross shoot. I have at least two cameras rolling at the same time. So I'll have two actors or two sets of actors at a time so everybody's basically on camera. So when they improvise we have everybody's coverage. And you can then go in the editing room and find the energy still stays there.

He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

He has a head, two arms, two legs, just as I.

How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.

To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.

I realized we'd pulled into a parking garage. We drove around two levels, pulled into a spot, then immediately pulled out again. Along with four other black Bentley SUVs. "What's going on?" I asked, as we headed back toward the exit with two Bentleys in front of us and two behind us. "Shell game," he said.

Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.

Baby, I'm yours until two and two is three.

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.

Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change

Me and my two best friends went to see the Ramones in 1979, and two weeks later, I was like, 'We're starting a band. That's it.'

In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.

Beware the man who has two faces and two hearts.

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

The two hemispheres of the brain are two very different places and they don't share any cell bodies. They are completely separate entities.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

Every creature reproduces after its kind. A dog gives birth to dogs, a cat gives birth to cats, a cow gives birth to cows, a monkey reproduces monkeys and a human reproduces humans. So when God gives birth, what do you think He'll reproduce? gods, of course! When God created Man, He created him in His image and after His likeness. That's why we look like Him; we have two hands the same way He has two hands. We have two legs, one head, one mouth, one nose, two ears and two eyes just like Him.

Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.

It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.

I worked in Toronto for two days. And by work I mean sit in a trailer for 15 hours, say two lines, and leave.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is, stuck. It's been without circulation for twenty-four hours. It's pretty well gone.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

I had to do two roles in two days, I'm in a hairflux.

I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City Volume 2 #1,' which was about a guy who had two daughters. In both cases, about a year and a half or two years apart. And then after that, I had two daughters, about a year and a half or two years apart.

The development of the Vertebrate proceeds from an axis upward, in two layers, which coalesce at the edges, and also downward, in two layers, which likewise coalesce at the edges. Thus two main tubes are formed, one above the other. During the formation of these, the embryo separates into strata, so that the two main tubes are composed of subordinate tubes which enclose each other as fundamental organs, and are capable of developing into all the organs.

The Shield was only around for what? Two years? And we did a lot in two years. I think the fact that people even take those two years and put them up against the reputations of those other groups really says a lot about what we were able to accomplish in that short period of time.

One ox, two oxen. One fox, two foxen.

Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me personally. One is what is really needed in the world and the second is what's really important to me and how these two intersect. It's always been a reflective process - spiraling around these two poles.

I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around.

In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.

I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

One of yoga's great gifts to making is the discovery of the link that exists between energy, breath, and mind. As you change one, you also change the other two. If you excite one, the other two become excited and, conversely, if you calm one, the other two respond by becoming calm also.