Quotes with two-martinis-for-lunch

Quotes 881 till 900 of 1121.

  • Louise Erdrich Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Charles Caleb Colton Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara W. Tuchman To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
    - +
     0
  • Leonard Bernstein To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
    - +
     0
  • Ernest Hemingway To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
    - +
     0
  • Norman Douglas To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
    - +
     0
  • Marguerite Duras To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
    - +
     0
  • Babe Ruth To my little sick pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
    - +
     0
  • Brigid Brophy To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
    - +
     0
  • Mark Twain To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Aristotle To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
    - +
     0
  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
    - +
     0
  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
    - +
     0
  • Arnold Beisser Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.
    Arnold Beisser
    American psychiatrist (1925 - 1991)
    - +
     0
  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
    - +
     0
  • Barry Ritholtz Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
    - +
     0
  • E. M. Forster Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Homer Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
    - +
     0
  • Jonathan Swift Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
    - +
     0
All two-martinis-for-lunch famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 45)