Top 100 Twice As Quotes
#1. No holy place existed without us then,
no woodland, no dance, no sound.
Beyond all hope, I prayed those timeless
days we spent might be made twice as long.
I prayed one word: I want.
Someone, I tell you, will remember us,
even in another time.
Sappho
#3. Over the past decade, child care costs have risen twice as fast as the median income of families with children.
Sheryl Sandberg
#4. The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
Arnold Bennett
#5. Ever since I arrived in America to promote "Stoker," I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.
Park Chan-wook
#6. I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
Yehuda Amichai
#7. Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
Robert Jordan
#8. Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
Xavier Becerra
#9. Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Karl Marx
#10. I did it,... I talked to Stephen King in a dream... not once but twice in two dreams. - As far from here I can tell you it's awesome... I did it... I jerkoff on a dream... dreaming that I'm jerking off.... I did it... I fucked a girl in a dream!
Deyth Banger
#11. Professor Morgulis wrote: "The acuity of the senses is increased by fasting, and at the end of his 31 days' abstinence from food, Professor Levanzin could see twice as far as he could when his fast began.
Hilton Hotema
#12. It was hard to listen to Goldwater and realize that a man could be half Jewish and yet sometimes appear twice as dense as the normal Gentile.
I. F. Stone
#13. Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
Barry White
#14. The best way is to be strong enough to make your enemy think twice about attacking you, yet not so aggressive that he feels threatened. Keep your sword sheathed as long as you can, but once it is unsheathed, use it without hesitation.
Lian Hearn
#15. She said, Hiking is the same thing as walking, only hotter and twice as far as you want to go. But usually, you're glad you went.
Anita Diamant
#16. 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 Ralph Augustine
#17. I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
Cameron Crowe
#18. Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.
Curtis Sliwa
#19. To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#20. I work twice as hard as everybody else.
Yohan Blake
#21. Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H.L. Mencken
#22. It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.
Neil Simon
#23. It's been my experience," observed Emma McChesney, "that when a firm condescends to pay a woman twice as much as a man, that means she's worth six times as much.
Edna Ferber
#24. Somebody who eats twice as much factory-farmed products as he or she needs to is clearly doing twice as much damage to the planet. From a utilitarian point of view, that's twice as bad.
Peter Singer
#25. An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.
Heinz Ruhmann
#26. Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.
Lucy R. Lippard
#27. By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#28. When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.
Alice Waters
#29. The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why - with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him.
Jay Leno
#30. I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#31. Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light's father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.
P.J. Parker
#32. In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.
David Pietrusza
#33. Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.
Sam Kean
#34. I try to come to Asia twice a year. I also go to Europe - to London as well as to France to see my family - four or five times a year.
Daniel Boulud
#35. I'm dying twice as fast
as any other American
between eighteen and thirty-five
This disturbs me,
but I try not to show it in public.
Essex Hemphill
#36. Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
#37. Music had been his undoing, he told the boy in ironic self-deprecation. His bane and his salvation. It had gotten him through tough times that would have otherwise been unbearable and it had made everything else he had gone at twice as hard.
William Gay
#38. They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#39. He who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.
Marianne Moore
#40. I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
Bruce Dickinson
#41. Two weekends in Philadelphia are not twice as pleasant as a single one - I've tried.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#42. The good folk of Twitter were extremely helpful when I needed to double-check how much blackjacks and fruit salad sweets cost in the 1960s. Without them I might have written my book twice as fast.
Neil Gaiman
#43. Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.
Amy Chua
#44. Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?
Louise Wilson
#45. You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.
David Foster Wallace
#46. A wife, he knew, was a huge armful of responsibility, and responsibility was the disease in man. But he was lonely, and twice as lonely after leaving the woman by the graves.
Vardis Fisher
#47. Boil 'em once or twice in hot water, and they'll come as fair as chicken and ham.
Rudyard Kipling
#48. I understand, certain scenes have to have a lot of takes. As an actor, I think it's quite nice to have a handful of takes, because you don't want to do it once or twice; I think once or twice sometimes is quite terrifying because you don't really feel like you've given them what you want.
Luke Evans
#49. As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.
L. Jon Wertheim
#50. When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.
Robert Redford
#51. Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President's inauguration. But it happened.
Jay-Z
#52. Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity.
Rumi
#53. There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#55. All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard, and look twice as good as the bitch standing next to you.
Paris Hilton
#56. When Chris was ten, we pushed him down the stairs. This was twice as entertaining.
Brigid Kemmerer
#57. Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
Lydia M. Child
#58. We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.
Cesar Chavez
#59. In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.
Caroline Kennedy
#60. No matter how hard you work for your money, there's always someone out there willing to work twice as hard to take it away from you.
J. Willard Marriott
#61. If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
Steven Wright
#62. He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. I beat him up twice but it did no good, he only grew closer to Jem.
Harper Lee
#63. On a globe it looks like a swollen California. Within that space, though, are twenty-thousand-foot peaks, the world's deepest canyon (twice as deep as the Grand Canyon), unmapped Amazon jungle and the driest desert on earth.
Mark Adams
#64. There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
William Shakespeare
#65. I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived!
Elle Fanning
#66. Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.
Serge Schmemann
#67. In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#68. Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Michael Caine
#69. WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh.
Just here,' said Eeyore.
Made of sticks?'
Yes'
Oh!' said Piglet.
What?' said Eeyore.
I just said "Oh!"' said Piglet nervously. And so as to seem quite at ease he hummed Tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.
A.A. Milne
#70. Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
Anna Funder
#71. A man with power can do little things. A man with a plan can do many things. A man with patience can do twice as many things. But only a man with perseverance can do everything.
Sarvesh Jain
#72. Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.
John Fogarty
#73. I NEVER lost as much but twice,
And that was in the sod;
Twice have I stood a beggar
Before the door of God!
Angels, twice descending,
Reimbursed my store.
Burglar, banker, father,
I am poor once more!
Emily Dickinson
#74. Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.
Brett Hull
#75. Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!
Mark Twain
#76. Look, do you believe in the institution of marriage?" "Of course." "And you accept that such beautiful lightning cannot strike you twice?" "Well yes, I suppose - " "Then shouldn't you get a ring on her as soon as possible?
Chris Cleave
#77. Now, on the contrary, here he was , plunged into a whiteness so luminous, so total, that it swallowed up rather than absorbed, not just colours, but the very things and beings , thus making them twice as invisible
Jose Saramago
#78. It usually takes an ethnic girl - I'm not saying black, I'm saying ethnic, let's make that clear - twice as long. We've gotta work extra-hard to stay in the game and stay with the girls who do well but aren't ethnic.
Chanel Iman
#79. A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.
Evan Esar
#80. ...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#81. once or twice the two of them shared a glimpse of meaning that felt as if a shaft of sunlight had struck through clouds to light up a majestic line of great hills in the distance - something far beyond, and never suspected.
Philip Pullman
#82. I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.
Gracie Allen
#83. If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you'd be twice as funny as you are.
Cassandra Clare
#84. I mean at the world as a checklist. Once you got to a place, you check them off and if you love the spot, you might check it off twice. You'll always find your way to go back to those places.
Dhani Jones
#85. Hey!" He snapped out of his musings as Destiny's hand trailed down his body to cup his less than interested cock through his trousers. "Claws to self, Vampira, I assume you brush your teeth twice a day but I have no idea where those hands of yours have been.
Jane Cousins
#86. You cannot step twice into the same river, said Herakleitos. People in the past were not just like us; to pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.
Mary Renault
#87. In the name of God, they stole her time and her freedom, putting shackles on her heart. They preached about God's kindness, but preached twice as much about his wrath and intolerance.
Haruki Murakami
#88. Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
Paul Newman
#89. We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
#90. It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it ... The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.
Michel De Montaigne
#91. There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can't golf on a plane.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#92. One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
Michael Caine
#93. And all the restless energy floating through me keeps connecting to him and coming back twice as strong, like we're this closed circuit, and the longer we stay linked, the more powerful the pull between us becomes.
Cora Carmack
#94. Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.
George Carlin
#95. It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot in the back of the head at his own funeral. Twice.
Tea Obreht
#96. A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.
G.H. Hardy
#97. He went on about the different types - the bulls were the best, but a female could be just as fierce and twice as smart.
Sarah J. Maas
#98. Anne-Marie Costallat, born October 8, 1944. I was beginning high school and masturbating twice a day, curling over it like a dead leaf, when she was born, in a bed of violets, as she says - all French mothers tell their children that.
James Salter
#99. In America, millions of dogs and cats euthanized in animal shelters every year become the food for our food (twice as many such animals are euthanized as are adopted).
Jonathan Safran Foer
#100. To be at the Oscars for 'American Sniper' and then also supporting Red Carpet Green Dress is just twice as cool for me.
Jake McDorman
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