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In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…

— Gary Shteyngart

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

— Dolley Madison

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.

— Anonymous

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

— Alan Lightman

But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of…

— Viola Davis

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your…

— Jean-Luc Godard

There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.…

— Sherwin Wine

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,…

— Megan Abbott

[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese…

— William Halsey

[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been…

— Dorothy Dunnett

The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

For basically two years, I took acting classes and found my own stride in L.A.

— Chloe Bennet

Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the…

— Anna Quindlen

First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.

— W. C. Fields

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that…

— John F. Kerry

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget…

— Chuck Berry

For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be…

— Charlie Sheen

My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

— Kina Grannis

Think the very fact that somebody like Mike Pence is seen as useful to the [Donald] Trump campaign would be analytically a…

— Mark Colvin

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo.…

— Jane Grigson

The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig…

— Thomas Macdonough

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

— Olive Schreiner

Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that…

— Lord Dunsany

It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed…

— Peter Greenaway