Being number two sucks.

It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.

— Jaan Tallinn

Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

— Duke Ellington

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether…

— Bob Schieffer

I aint never number two, so you aint gettin' shit from me.

— Lil Wayne

I don't want to be a number two, that's clear. I want to play.

— Simon Mignolet

Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you…

— Robert Evans

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before.…

— Evander Holyfield

I raced because I was paid to do a job and I felt like I had to do the job. Number two: I raced…

— Lance Armstrong

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when…

— Daphne Gottlieb

“Tell me, do you have Tate waiting naked for me in my office? Because that would really be the perfect way to thank me…

— Ella Frank

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually…

— Yoko Ono

“He spun in clear air, weightless again but traveling too fast to breathe the air that tore past his lips. As his vision darkened…

— Karl Schroeder

“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Remember two eighty-six. Livia now counted on the same sort of feverish, rain-soaked determination that had driven Blake to the train station for smile…

— Debra Anastasia

“So… what? You want me to sign my name in blood or something?” “Hmmm,” he said, tapping his finger against his cheek as he…

— L.J. Kentowski