Two Quotes - Page 176

Two of the biggest drivers of airline profit are change fees and baggage fees.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

A happy relationship is made up of two good forgivers.

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

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.

Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.

The biggest untapped source of energy today is our youth. I am from an age of consumerism, but my two daughters are young enough to change the way their generation thinks.

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.