A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

I waited two thousand years for you, Grace Alexander,” he whispered in her ear. “And you were worth every second of it.

How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.

Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here.

I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.

True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).

If two people can love each other without even speaking the same language, age and numbers are even easier to overcome.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.

You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.

You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much." -Acheron

I think there are two keys to success. One is to show up. The other one is to keep going. Most people don’t keep going.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

The trust is a matter of love and faith is a matter of truth. The two together give you the guidance that you look for.

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.

I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

The police stopped me when I was out in my car. They told me it was a spot check. I admitted to two pimples and a boil.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

Don't be an asshole," the guy snapped as he cracked a freshie. "Oh, right, because two in this group would be overkill.

If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

I'm always quite amazed that people in Europe become unnerved when two institutions or two people have different views.

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