Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juvenal

Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.

Otto von Bismarck

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.

Otto von Bismarck

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

Kathryn Stockett

President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.

Kapil Dev

If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

Kami Garcia

You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.

Kami Garcia

I watched the way they looked at each other. Any idiot could see they were in love, even if they were the only two idiots who couldn't.

June Jordan

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

Julie Taymor

Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

Julie Taymor

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

Julian Huxley

Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.

Judy Garland

People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

Judy Woodruff

All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.

Paul Theroux

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

Paul D. Boyer

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

Patrick Stump

There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.

Patrick Carman

I've stabbed two people with a fork today. What's wrong with me?

Patrick Dempsey

What you want in a romantic comedy, is to have two people that you want to see together and how do they overcome the obstacles that are in the way for that to happen.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you a master of all.

Ovid

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

Ovid

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

P. C. Cast

Also pay attention if a tree or whatnot says something about two bulls.

P. C. Cast

You can borrow my two-carat diamond stud earrings," Aphrodite said. I stopped and looked back at her. "Huh?" She shrugged. "That's as close to a declaration of love as you're gonna get from me.

P. C. Cast

The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn into a vampyre, which equals a monster in just about any human’s mind. Choice Number 2: My body rejects the Change and I die. Forever. So the good news is that I wouldn’t have to take the geometry test tomorrow.

Paul McCulley

The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.

Paul McCartney

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

Patty Hearst

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.

Kate Hudson

I'm superstitious ... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

Karen Kingsbury

New steps. That's what it amounted to. The two of them were learning the steps that would bring them together, a dance that would take them into forever. A dance that could be nothing less than God's plan for their lives.

Karen Russell

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

George MacDonald

Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.

Emily Post

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.