Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willard Van Orman Quine

No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

Whoopi Goldberg

I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.

Warren Spahn

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

Warren Spahn

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

Ronald Reagan

There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

Ronald Reagan

There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.

Ronald Reagan

An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

Saint Francis de Sales

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

Saint Augustine

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

Saint Augustine

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Saint Augustine

Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

Saint Augustine

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will...

Yannick Noah

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

Wislawa Szymborska

What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?

Wislawa Szymborska

Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.

Winston Churchill

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

Will Rogers

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

W. C. Fields

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?

W. C. Fields

First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.

Zora Neale Hurston

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

Zack Snyder

The truth is the music is really an incredible personal part of the movie. When I was drawing the storyboards for Watchmen, I had just gone to my iPod and was grabbing music. It took me about two weeks to really put my playlist together. But once I had it, I kinda just put my headsets on and drew for five months. But that music's the music that's in the movie.

Yvon Chouinard

One thing I did not want to change, even if we got serious, work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis. We all had to come to work on the balls of our feet and go up the stairs two at a time.

Yukio Mishima

When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.

Zakk Wylde

One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

Zayn Malik

Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Yul Vazquez

If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.

Zhou Yongkang

It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.

Zhang Ziyi

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

Yvette Nicole Brown

I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!

Youssou N'Dour

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

Yoshihiko Noda

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming.