“A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.” MenWayFirstsChildrenTwoSawsDyingPoetTwo Ways Author:James A. Michener
“I like Pixie Sticks. Yeah, screw the middle man. Just a tube of sugar... I'd pour two of those in a big 12 ounce coke. And I'd go out to catechism class and try to concentrate on the priest. I saw Jesus several times. I swear I did.” MenTryingTwoBigsJesusClassSawsMiddleYeahSticksPriestsSugarSwearScrewsTubesCokePixiesCatechism Author:Tim Allen
“During the last two years the wealthiest 14 Americans saw their wealth increase by $157 billion. This is truly unbelievable. This $157 billion INCREASE in wealth among 14 individuals is more wealth that is owned, collectively, by 130 million Americans. This country does not survive morally, economically or politically when so few have so much, and so many have so little.” YearsLittlesDoeTwoCountryLastsIndividualWealthMillionsSawsIncreaseBillionsTwo YearsUnbelievable Author:Bernie Sanders
“He will be England captain one day. Jack Wilshere is a real leader. I saw how he spoke with the referee and the other players [against Denmark]. It is difficult to find someone so young with such a big personality. I remember two defenders, Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi, and one attacker, Raul, but for personality and confidence on the pitch he is the best young midfielder I have seen for his age.” TwoRealBigsAgeRememberYoungDifficultLeaderSawsPlayerPersonalityOne DayEnglandSpokesCaptainsDefendersRefereeDenmarkFrancoMidfieldersMaldini Author:Fabio Capello
“The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989.” PeopleHas BeensTwoReasonMightStarsAudienceSawsComedyPerformancesPressesChineseLaughedCentsMight Have BeenRemakesReckoningPanthersHyenasPink Panther Author:Philip French
“LTCM lost money when Russia defaulted on a certain class of bonds, and then they had other investments like on the spread between two different kinds of shares of Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company. Now that seems completely unrelated to Russian bonds. But they were related because other hedge funds saw similar discrepancies and they were all making similar bets.” KindTwoDifferentSeemsCertainLostCompanyClassSawsShareInvestmentSpreadOilRussiaRelatedFundDifferent KindsShellsRoyalDutchOil CompaniesDiscrepanciesHedge FundLost Money Author:Richard Thaler
“I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'” IfsTwoPlayTogetherSawsTelevisionCatHeyTomsJerryHungariansBrahmsTom And Jerry Author:Lang Lang
“I saw pure love when my son looked at me, and I knew that I had to make a good life for the two of us.” TwoSawsSonPureMy SonGood LifePure LoveTwo Of Us Author:Suzanne Somers
“Every once in awhile, Allison Abbate would drop a note and say, "It's going really well!," and I was like, "Great!" So, I had not seen it in about two years. They went off and started shooting, and I saw it all put together with almost the final sound mix and it was remarkable. I was so, so happy and relieved, not in the sense that I thought something had gone wrong, but you just don't know what something is going to be like until you see it put together. Everyone stepped up and brought their A+ game.” KnowsYearsWellsTwoTogetherGamesSoundGoneSawsNotesFinalsShootingRemarkableTwo YearsRelievedAllison Author:John August
“When I started, every film got a full theatrical distribution. Today, almost no low budget films, maybe two or three a year, will get a full theatrical distribution. We've been frozen out of that, which means they must be aware that for a full theatrical distribution it either has to be something like Saw or some exploitation film of today or an extremely well made personal film.” YearsWellsMeanMadeTwoTodayFilmThreeSawsLowsBudgetsExploitationFrozenDistributionTheatrical Author:Roger Corman
“More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.” PeopleTryingTwoFunSexWalksKnownSawsFashionStyleChangedGayConsciousRageLike MeContinents Author:Mae West
“I've always hate child stars, starting from way back when, when I was a child. The first child star I saw was Shirley Temple. She was six years old, two foot six and the biggest star in Hollywood. She wore ribbons in her hair, and frilly little pinafores and shiny patent-leather tap shoes - just like the boys in Glee do.” WayYearsFirstsChildrenLittlesTwoHateStarsBoysSawsFeetHairSixHollywoodShoesStartingTemplesLeatherBack WhenPatentsRibbonsGleeSix Year OldsWay Back When Book:I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me Source: I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me
“I saw a dog wearing a sweater and I thought that looked ridiculous 'cause dogs don't have arms. If you're going to put clothes on the dog, you should put two pairs of pants on it.” IfsShouldTwoCausesSawsDogArmsClothesRidiculousPairsPantsSweaters Author:Demetri Martin
“Man versus woman equals fun. Man versus man equals gay. Woman versus woman equals awesome. Man versus pillow equals crazy. Pillow versus pillow equals crazy awesome - that's a real pillow fight right there. You see two pillows fighting, you know something's going down. They're designed for relaxation. If they're fighting, what hope do we have? One time I saw two geese fighting, and I was like, 'This is a pillow fight ahead of time.” IfsKnowsMenTwoRealFightingFunSawsCrazyGayOne TimeVersusRelaxationPillowGeeseAhead Of TimePillow Fights Author:Demetri Martin
“In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and mellow for them, and neither was our look or our attitude. While in Vancouver, the two most important early punk bands, D.O.A. and the Subhumans, were both managed by former yippie activists, who saw this as a logical extension of what they were already doing.” LooksTwoImportantAttitudeSawsNiceBandFormerLogicalActivistPunkExtensionsHostileSan FranciscoMellowVancouverBerkeley Author:Jello Biafra
“To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw.” TwoSawsComedyRageBullsRaging Bull Author:Louis C. K.
“...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.” ShouldMindFirstsStillsTwoIdeasPhilosophyAbleAbilitySawsImpossibleExamplePositive ThinkingAdultsTestsFunctionRateDeterminedPositive AttitudeHopelessHopelessnessImprobableKeep A Positive AttitudePositive Mind Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Two weeks ago at the Greater Glory Gathering Virginia Beach, the Lord spoke to me about contending for a greater outpouring of his presence, signs, and wonders. During this prophetic experience I saw the Revival Healing Angel that had visited us in Lakeland, Florida.” TwoHealingWonderLordSawsGreaterWeekGloryAngelBeachSpokesFloridaGatheringRevivalTwo WeeksVirginiaPropheticContendingSigns And Wonders Author:Todd Bentley
“In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.” PeopleYearsTwoCountryLastsWealthJusticeViewsMillionsSawsPeriodsIncreaseBottomBillionsTwo Years Author:Bernie Sanders
“I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.” ThinkingTwoHappensWantedSawsFansHorrorScaryHolesScareCrapThrillersHorror FansSaw Movie Author:Katee Sackhoff
“I posted a video a day for almost two months and was hardly sleeping, but I think it really pushed me to give music everything I had in me. I knew it was a chance I couldn't miss. The funny thing is I never saw my music video when it aired during the Super Bowl because as soon as I heard my song start I was in tears for the next 10 minutes! The most amazing thing that came out of all of this, however, was the support that had developed online. Without the people that came back day after day to vote for me, I'd be nowhere, and I really owe it all to them.” PeopleThinkingGivingTwoSongNextChanceSleepSupportSawsHeardMinutesMissingTearsMonthsVoteVideoOnlineBowlsFunny ThingsAmazing ThingsSuper BowlMost AmazingTwo MonthsVote For Me Author:Kina Grannis
“The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience and with the uneasy relationship between what I was doing and what I believed in - or what I saw as an uneasy relationship between those two things.” TwoStoriesCertainMy OwnSawsCreatingMemoirNarrativeTwo ThingsUneasy Author:Melissa Febos
“My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.” ThinkingMenChildrenTwoFatherBlackSawsSeeingTreeStreetsBusinessmanVagrants Author:Toni Morrison
“I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love at first sight, as one does, and above all a story in which no one is what they appear to be.” PeopleNeedsFirstsDoeTwoStoriesWantedSawsSightLondonLove At First SightBoulevard Author:William Monahan
“My parents got divorced when I was about ten years old, but I saw my mom go work two and three jobs to make sure we didn't miss a beat.” YearsTwoJobsThreeParentSawsMissingMomTenBeatsMy MomDivorced Author:LeToya Luckett
“Very few people actually saw Andy's films like Chelsea Girls where he filmed seven hours, ran it on two screens, where each scene was in a different room at the Chelsea Hotel with these people he called 'Superstars" who were basically super-exhibitionists - the guy in one room high on LSD talking about masturbation, Brigid Berlin in another room playing a lesbian and shooting up people with amphetamines right through their jeans, it was all real and they were really doing it (though Brigid is now a proper lady), but you know Andy really did pre-date reality TV.” PeopleKnowsTwoDifferentRealRealityFilmGuyGirlHoursRoomsTalkingSawsTvsSceneSevenScreensShootingRanHotelJeansBerlinSuperstarMasturbationReality TvChelseaLsdExhibitionistAmphetaminesShooting Up Author:Bob Colacello
“How many migrants, how many immigrants, how many migrants and refugees fleeing war-torn areas in the Middle East are permitted into the Vatican? I'm not kidding. I think I saw a story where they're going to take ... two. It's obviously symbolic. They will take two at the Vatican, thereby setting an example and showing how it's done.” ThinkingTwoWarDoneStoriesSawsMiddleExampleAreasEastSettingSettingsImmigrantsMiddle EastTornRefugeeSymbolicMigrantsFleeingSetting An Example Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Klaus Mann saw very clearly how different was his own (more liberated) form of homosexuality from the same-sex attractions of his father - and that is reiterated in TM's diary queries about "how two men can sleep together".” MenTwoDifferentTogetherFormFatherSexSleepSawsAttractionHomosexualityDiariesLiberatedQueries Author:Philip Kitcher
“As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.” TwoHandsIndividualLeftSocialInterestSimpleLevelsResultsCasesSawsTrumpConflictLogicCompetitionCriticsInvisibleTraditionalObservationNarrativeCollectivesInsufficientNaturalistInvisible HandMarket Failure Author:Bob Frank
“I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis' story which is the largest portion of this, a lot of the events are exactly as you saw, exactly what happened and the locations. Exactly as it was said with the chicken house and the strip club. Richard's parents were on the set and they'll tell you that the story is different than their son's. I was very concerned because I called them to say, 'You understand I'm fictionalizing this story?” SaidTwoDifferentStoriesFoundHouseParentSawsHappenedEventsSonConcernedDecidedClubsChickensPortionsLocationTrue Story Author:Paul Haggis