(544 quotes found)
“If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.”
Norman R. Augustine
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man”
William Shakespeare
“I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on both counts, but I never noticed.”
B. B. King
“If you do not have brains you follow the same route twice.”
Greek proverb
“I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.”
Alexander Hamilton
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once”
Cyril Connolly
“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.”
Catherine Drinker Bowen
“You know that Pepperidge Farm bread, that stuff is fancy. That stuff is wrapped twice. You open it, and then still ain't open. That's why I don't buy it, I don't need another step between me and toast.”
Mitch Hedberg
“Don't let the same dog bite you twice”
Chuck Berry
