Top 100 Number Two Sayings
#1. I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.
Rainn Wilson
#2. I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.
Bruce Lee
#3. Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.
Chris Murray
#4. Look, let me put it this way: with me, you're number one and there isn't even a number two.
Charles Bukowski
#6. Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?
Buzz Aldrin
#8. I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.
Dennis Wilson
#9. You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.
Dusty Baker
#10. The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#11. Relentlessly, I read on: Number one: Make at least two friends your own age. Number two: Go places besides your room. Number three: Get boyfriend. Number four: Make sure Mom and Dad notice numbers one through three.
Anne Eliot
#12. No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
Thomas Sowell
#13. Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
Evander Holyfield
#14. You staked a vampire with a number two pencil."
"I didn't actually check the number."
- Shane Collins and Claire Danvers from Morganville Vampires
Rachel Caine
#15. I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
Halsey
#17. I train for two reasons. Number one, I love working out, and number two, I want to win. You can't win if you don't train to the best of your ability.
Branch Warren
#18. Number two on my list is simple. I must say yes to everything for one whole day. Whatever it is and whoever asks it of me.
Jenny Downham
#19. I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.
Vijay Singh
#21. Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.
Steve Spurrier
#22. Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
Duke Ellington
#23. Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue.
John Larson
#24. Dear brother," Number Two replied, "I can eat shit, I just don't like the taste.
Mo Yan
#25. When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing was an easy number one.
Neil Gaiman
#26. I'm a pretty normal guy. I do one weird thing. I like to go in the women's room for number two. I've been caught several times and I have paid dearly.
Creed Bratton
#27. My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.
John Ortberg
#28. 3. In order to hold off the Forces of Darkness, you will need a number two pencil and a calendar, preferably one without pictures of kitties on it. Keep it near you when you sleep.
Christopher Moore
#29. White people's number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don't have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we're ignorant.
Jane Elliott
#30. I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.
Chris Christie
#31. Been taught as a toddler) - except whoever heard of four boys Going Number Two at the same time?
Stephen King
#32. What's rule number two?" Granny stopped, her hands on the back of a chair, and looked straight at me. "Always make sure," she said, slowly, to ensure I paid attention, "that they underestimate you. That is the key.
Anne Fortier
#33. I thought I was having a heart attack. I couldn't breathe. I didn't know much, but I did know the rules about owning a dick. Rule number one: It should never bleed. Rule number two: There was no rule number two. IT SHOULD NEVER BLEED.
Tara Sivec
#34. It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.
Stephen Ambrose
#35. Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka.
David Letterman
#36. Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
Bill Kristol
#37. Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.
Sergei Bongart
#38. Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.
Jean-Luc Godard
#39. You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.
Michael Nesmith
#40. Allow me to correct you on two things: number one, the reason John Cena isn't here tonight has nothing to do with you. John Cena isn't here because I destroyed him in our match, this past week, in Pennsylvania. And number two, you're not the leader of the Nexus, I am.
Wade Barrett
#41. And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm of a number two pencil and a mind open to the possibilities.
Toni Sorenson
#42. Sometimes the world is better off if one always defaults to option number two.
Anne Mallory
#43. I'd rather be number one on the worst-dressed list than number two on the best.
Nicollette Sheridan
#44. 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 number two hundred eighty-six. Please be there. He has to be there.
Debra Anastasia
#47. It takes vast willpower, luck, and skill to be the first. But it takes a gigantic heart to be number two.
Johan Harstad
#48. After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.
Guy Lafleur
#49. My Yoga practice is number one, straight physical exercises are number two, and when I can do neither, I focus on the breath. Make sure I drink enough water and get enough sleep.
Leilani Bishop
#50. We had these throwbacks who would do stuff like printing their emails out on paper to read them, or asking you for your goddamn fax number two decades after you had thrown away your fax machine.
Neal Stephenson
#52. He would rock back and forth in his chair, making sure it squeaked ominously. He always found a chair that squeaked ominously. He was so good at squeaking ominously that he managed to make year-six teacher number two burst into tears.
Adrienne Kress
#53. Rule number one of monster hunting," Cody said. "There are no coincidences."
"No, that's rule number two," Robin said. "Rule number one is, 'Kill it before it eats you.
J.S. Hope
#54. The next day we moved my things, that is to say all my books, which had now grown to number two and a half thousand titles, a fact which Anders and Geir, who were helping me with the move, cursed from the bottom of their hearts as we shifted the boxes from the lift into the flat.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#55. There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.
John Piper
#56. When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make your statement. It could be an affirmation of your first choice or could go off in another direction.
Jay Maisel
#57. What is ... important is that we - number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other.
Jonas Salk
#58. We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran.
Ted Cruz
#59. Svava: "Rule number one: Never make a fool of yourself."
Riis: "Rule number two: Never be a burden to any one."
Svava: "Rule number three: Always be in the fashion.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
#60. Bonner leans his forehead against hers. Zig when they think you'll zag. Creation's Rule Number Two.
What's Number One? Els asks, willing to be this bent soul's straight man.
Zag when they think you'll zig.
Richard Powers
#61. I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.
Linda Vester
#62. Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.
Ray Bradbury
#63. The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.
Warren Rudman
#64. I have three commitments. Number one commitment is promotion of human value. Number two commitment is promotion of race harmony. Number three commitment is about Tibet. My retirement is the third commitment. The previous two commitments, to my death, I have committed.
Dalai Lama
#65. I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.
John Newcombe
#66. Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
Gustav Mahler
#67. It was my bad luck (considering Lee's moral code was a bit sketchy) that I fell into Liam Nightingale's Ethical Rule Book at Rule Number Two (with Rule Number One being "Thou shalt not nail your brother's girlfriend"), I was "Thou shalt not nail your little sister's best friend.
Kristen Ashley
#68. It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.
John Battelle
#69. There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
Bertolt Brecht
#70. First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.
Denis Leary
#71. My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of "play," number one, was "engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor," and number two was "gambling." And I realize I do both when I'm designing.
Paula Scher
#72. I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.
Kanye West
#73. Number one, I'd just seen my first zombies. Number two, there was no way to stop what was happening. Number three, the odds were I'd never live to see my nineteenth birthday. Life was over before I'd ever even got the chance to live it.
Rose Wynters
#74. To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think
spend some time time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears. If you laugh, think and cry, that's a heck of a day.
Jim Valvano
#75. The nominee is Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan joins Mitt Romney. The budget plan, the approach on Medicare and all of that is going to be the Romney plan. What he has is a man as his number two who understands the details of budgets, who has demonstrated a willingness to take on tough issues.
John Sununu
#76. But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
Bob Schieffer
#77. Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.
Richard Widmark
#78. I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.
Kate Winslet
#79. A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
Jack Welch
#80. One, can I have your number? Two, can I have your smile? Three, will you meet me somewhere? Four, will you stay awhile?
Brittainy C. Cherry
#81. As much as I hated to admit it, Ami was right. Rule number two of lying is to make it as airtight as possible. Which just goes back to rule number one: never get caught.
Alicia Thompson
#82. Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."
Brian Tracy
#83. Bet I can blow a hole in your chest before you can crush my leg."
"You wouldn't dare."
"Why not?" I asked.
A touch of fear flowed through his eyes. "I am the human servant of a council member."
"Not impressed," I said. "Try door number two.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#84. Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.
Richard Simmons
#85. I want a partner in crime and a Bonnie to my Clyde. I've just been so focused on my career. Women don't like being number two, so I've been glad to keep my distance so I could focus on me, get my life together and take care of my mom without disappointing the woman I love.
Shemar Moore
#86. I'm going to adopt you. You'd make a wonderful daughter. Hey, evil-minded future daughter number two. You heard Arkana. What do you think?" Grudgingly, Shukrat admitted, "I think she's right." "Excellent! Let's go ask your wicked future mother's opinion." We
Glen Cook
#87. I am Merc and there are three things you should know about me. Number one. You might be bigger, but I will last longer. Number two. If you fuck me, I fuck everything you ever loved. And number three. I never lose. My victory is only delayed.
J.A. Huss
#88. My woman. She had a momentary image of a caveman, hanging on to his woman by the hair with one hand while in the other he wielded a club to beat back caveman number two. Perhaps she would sketch it one day.
Mary Balogh
#89. We have to make sure that not only we [politicians] actually focus on, but the entire nation knows we're focusing on, growth and competition within the United States of America and compete internationally. I don't know anywhere where it's written that we have to be number two.
Joe Biden
#90. The only way to stay alive is to stay alone. That's rule number two.
Rick Yancey
#91. To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.
Henry Rollins
#93. There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.
Mark Strickson
#94. We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
Jim Valvano
#95. There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'
Dave Gibbons
#96. So what's it to be, Bear?"
Dev lifted his leg and gave a sarcastic slap to his thigh.
"By golly, I'll take door number two, Bob. You know the one that calls for straight suicide with a side of mutilation and pain? Sign my hairy ass up for that and don't be late.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#97. My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai
Barack Obama
#98. There're rules to being the side chick. Rule number one: you're number two.
J. B. Smoove
#99. Rule number one: your accounts must always present a true and factual picture of your business operations.' 'And what's the other rule?' asked Arvind. 'Rule number two is to occasionally forget rule number one.
Ashwin Sanghi
#100. Romy Madley Croft from the xx. Number two: Alison Moyet from Yaz. And number three: Johnette Napolitanos from Concrete Blonde.
Kim Holden
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