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“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Writing Said Two Ends Creative Flower Drink Taste Advertising Brown Bottles Ads Creative Writing Slogans Spit Cigar Billboards

Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was 'as thick as two short planks,' became the exception as girls from Benenden and Downe House started to fast-track towards the City and law, consultancy, media and the arts.”

Way Art Two Law Girl House Cities Media Proud Track Exception Thick Pigs Diana Certificates Guinea Guinea Pigs

Author:Peter York

“In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys - who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different visions of what the new ideal upper-middle-y life looked like.”

Knows Two Different Vision Middle Late Ideals Brilliant Lifestyle Setting Settings Britain Fascinating Branding 1960s Catalogues

Author:Peter York

“I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.”

Two Three Wife Week My Wife Three Times Seafood Thai Thai Food

Author:Pierre Dukan

“I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.”

Thinking Giving Trying Two Wanted Girl Parent Born Boys

Author:Alex Borstein

“Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.”

Two Different Sound Simple Fronts Huge Speakers Angle Different Angles

Author:Scott Putesky

“I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds.”

Way Two Kids Three My Own Steps College Fund

Author:Black Francis

“This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.”

Humans Two Century Events University Obvious Backgrounds Recognition Instruction Inclusion

Book:The Oriental Institute

Source: The Oriental Institute

“We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.”

Way Two Enough Helping Three Situation Dangerous Conversation Solutions Discussion Flaws Good Enough Three Things Not Good Enough

Author:Edward Felten

“During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.”

Two Country Past Levels Majors Lows Decades Fallen Inflation Low Level

Author:Toshihiko Fukui

“And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.”

Two Country Poor Millions Cases Five Four Industry Mediums France Peasants Belgium Switzerland Holland Scandinavians Scandinavia

Author:Herman Gorter

“I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.”

Ifs Men Long Two America Long Time Japan Old Man Bows Formal Hello Slap Exchanging Two Friends

Author:Sessue Hayakawa

“If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.”

Ifs Want Two Lasts Approach Tables Reputation Nickels

Author:Tom Hicks

“I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I'm free, I start writing. While it is necessary for me to write, I know that if I go too long without acting on the stage I don't feel well.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Writing Wells Long Two Happens Waiting Acting Crazy Stage Months Impatient Two Months

Author:Erland Josephson

“I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.”

Believe Two I Believe Gains I Believe In Pounds Lambs

Author:Evelyn Lauder

“Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.”

Two Three Appearance Labour Cartoon

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.”

Men Two Young Three Forever Middle Mom My Family My Mom Coffee Afternoon Older Sister Three Sisters

Author:Richard LaGravenese

“A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.”

World Made Two Real Shows Film Deals Elements Real World

Author:Rouben Mamoulian

“My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.”

Two Whole Jobs Teach Economic Subjects Theory Mass Economics International Unemployment Economic Theory Corpus

Author:James Meade

“In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.”

Two War Evil Mass Threat Unemployment 1930s

Author:James Meade

“Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.”

People Two Hours Four Complicated

Author:Robert Maxwell

“You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.”

Two Hands Choices Embrace Two Choices

Author:Andrew Niccol

“My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.”

Firsts Children Two Dream Effort Study Areas Pilots Parallels Pursued Astronomers

Author:Claude Nicollier

“I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.”

Thinking Firsts Two Play Shows Months Involved Six Models Theater Males Forty Plastic Six Months Casting

Author:Austin Peck

“If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.”

“The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.”

Long Two War Country Fighting Theory Conflict Arguing Chains Ties Prevention Supply Chain Two Countries Dell

Author:Thomas Friedman

“It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.”

Two Social Economy Economic Obligation Corporations Intertwined Social Obligation

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.”

Two Mother Three Actors Parent Brother Doctors Thirds Chosen Older Brother Chosen One

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.”

Two One Thing

Author:Rider Strong

“I took my children to see 'Son of Rambow,' about two boys who make a home movie with a video camera. When you have children, culturally you become involved in their life.”

Children Two Home Boys Son Involved Cameras Video My Children Video Cameras

Author:Sophie Thompson

“It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.”

Two Used Lost Given Difficult Poverty Mines Research Devotion Enthusiasm Pens Fountain Pencils Provoked Nickels Fountain Pens Ballpoint Pens

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.”

Two Problem Film Rooms Building Cameras No Problem

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.”

Made Two Industry Cost Rate Factors Operations Feds Wages Components Automobile Cost Of Living Escalators Automobile Industry

Author:Leonard Woodcock

“I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.”

Two Bigs Albums Reggae

Author:Dave Willis

“I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.”

Thinking Way Two Song Sick Albums Meant To Be Itunes

Author:Mickey Melchiondo

“I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.”

Ifs Writing Trying Long Two Whole Moving Girl Pages Notes Likes Gauges Make A Move

Author:Devon Werkheiser

“I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.”

Needs Giving Stills Two Real Used Events Information Pages Outlines Manuscripts

Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

“Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.”

May Two Values Culture Results Practice Influence Example Habit Exercise Patterns Desirable Undesirable Two Cultures

Author:Shelley E. Taylor

“Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.”

Two Film Stars All Time Hated Chemistry

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.”

Humans Heart Two Space Divides Human Heart Space Between

Author:Daniel Tammet

“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.”

Humans Two Humor Seems Funny Purpose Human Beings Animal Party Greater Example Capacity Dinner Invention Boredom Bores Epic Metaphysics Dinner Party Epic Poems

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.”

Thinking Men Two Lasts Artist Talent Painting Painter Muse Brushes Trios

Author:Robert Breault

“Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.”

Two Silence Simplicity Attraction

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.”

Mind Humans Two Literature Perfect Creativity Information Creation Fool Personality Conscious Function Deeper Surface Human Mind Two Personalities

Author:E. M. Forster

“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”

Years Firsts Humans Stills Two Facts Dies Born Air Creatures Eternal England Twenties Britain Ireland Seventies Foreigners Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.”

Two Three Half Boys Youth

Book:The Spirit of St. Louis

Source: The Spirit of St. Louis

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

Humans Two Humanity Race Gone Cost Dollars Human Race Inflation Cost Of Living

Author:W. C. Fields

“There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.”

Two Religion Atheism Positive Atheism Two Things Professors Persecution Sects Plunder

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.”

Firsts Wells Two Term Two Things Quarrels Contending

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.”

Two Ideas Matter Energy Stuff Forgiveness Concepts Forgiving Extraordinary Radical Phases Matter And Energy

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

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