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I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two. Nora Roberts
By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird? Calvin Trillin
...until the day God deigns to reveal the future to man, the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: wait and hope. Alexander Dumas
Bertrand Russell quote: "Intelligibility or precision: to combine the two is impossible."
Intelligibility or precision: to combine the two is impossible. Bertrand Russell
Man is made and unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons which will destroy him. He also creates the tools with which he will build for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peach. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and their master. James Allen
An apostate scientist, a kidnapped scientist, a dull peasant, a two-headed monster, an apple-brained moron -- five knives, counting Joe-Jim as one; five brains, counting Joe-Jim as two and Bobo as none -- five brains and five knives to overthrow an entire culture. Robert A. Heinlein
Steve Martin quote: "A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like..."
A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. Steve Martin
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "How could two people who were so in love not end up happily..."
How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it? Elizabeth Gilbert
Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream. Katherine Mansfield
Among God's creations, two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes in order not to be seperated from the man. -Andres Segovia Andres Segovia
And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought. Mark Haddon
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart. To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in... William Shakespeare
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia. Henry David Thoreau
Tom Robbins quote: "like two r's trapped in a spanish songbook, tilli and max..."
like two r's trapped in a spanish songbook, tilli and max lurked in their shoebox castle, waiting to be rolled. Tom Robbins
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature? both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of... Shirley Hazzard

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