Twice As Quotes

#1. Of course, to a true geek, the glass is neither half-full nor half-empty. It's twice as big as it currently needs to be, though a reasonable reserve margin is not a bad thing to have ready, just in case.

David S. Platt

#2. As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

Thomas Sowell

#3. In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once.

Paul Stamets

#4. New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.

Anna Quindlen

#5. She had something down there twice as big as mine. That's why I say you better watch where you stroke, cause it could turn out, turn out to be a joke.

Gary B.B. Coleman

#6. You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.

Linda Sue Park

#7. I am never home, and it's hard to keep up with things that are good for you to have in life like relationships, whether they be romantic or friendship. I have to work twice as hard to make sure I don't just check out. That's what I mean by vulnerability.

Jen Kirkman

#8. When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.

Dan Hawkins

#9. Everything I know about passive resistance I learned from Micheline. She always appeared to be doing exactly as she was told, but everything she did took twice as long as it should have.

Elizabeth Wein

#10. It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

Zinedine Zidane

#11. Technically, somenumber sets the radius - the distance between the middle of the circle and the edge. A circle is always twice as wide as its radius. (You don't need to remember any of this until you're in high school.)

Richard Wentk

#12. His body jerks twice as the bullets hit him. I scream, but no sound leaves my mouth. I'm frozen in pure terror.

Sarah Hunter Hyatt

#13. Eat ten of your five a day and live twice as long

Benny Bellamacina

#14. That's the problem with the socialist model, because the socialist model - if you work twice as hard as I do, and you get just the same amount, pretty soon you decide that it's foolish for you to do more than I.

Rafael Cruz

#15. I'm not looking for love," she tried to explain."If it comes my way, that makes it twice as special.

Kate Angell

#16. I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is!

Elizabeth Gaskell

#17. Think twice as much as others.
Study twice as much as others.
Work twice as much as others.
Give twice as much as others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

Anton Chekhov

#19. Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.

Terri Farley

#20. When you're the first guy to put out the piece of silicon that's half as expensive or twice as powerful, you bring a capability to the market that nobody else does - or can.

Brian Krzanich

#21. Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

John Selden

#22. Though I guess if you love someone, the thought of losing their approval is probably twice as terrifying.

Riley Redgate

#23. Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are.

Larry Ellison

#24. One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

Mikhail Lermontov

#25. A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

William Feather

#26. Takes twice as much courage to be who you are, say what you think, feel what you feel and let it show then it does to bury it. That shit you been holdin' onto will destroy you. You got a safe place to get rid of it, and you do, then you get rid of it like you just did. Yeah?

Kristen Ashley

#27. And I knew that. Male panthers, all of them, were a very Neanderthalish lot. They liked their mates at home when they were, around, underfoot, close enough to touch at all times. Semels were twice as possessive, twice as protective, and three times as caveman-inclined.

Mary Calmes

#28. Half as big but twice as mad.

George R R Martin

#29. A French portion is half of an American portion, and a French meal takes twice as long to eat. You do the math.

Elizabeth Bard

#30. You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

Paul Westphal

#31. Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

Eric Schlosser

#32. The life of a woman is worth half of that of a man [in Iran]. If a terrorist attacks me and my brother on the street and we are both injured the same, the compensation he receives is twice as much as the compensation that I would receive.

Shirin Ebadi

#33. He's half my ex-husband's age, but twice as energetic when we have sex. And twice as grateful afterwards.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#34. The permafrost contains more than some 1.5 trillion tons of frozen carbon, which is nearly twice as much carbon as contained in the atmosphere. Although

Joseph Romm

#35. To be of use and to know how to show yourself of use, is to be twice as useful.

Baltasar Gracian

#36. Believe it or not, there are twice as many eyebrows in the world as there are people.

Tim Vine

#37. Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

Robert A. Heinlein

#38. Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.

Russ Carnahan

#39. Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

Allegra Goodman

#40. Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.

Winston S. Churchill

#41. Love God more than you fear hell. Make major decisions in a cemetery. When no one is watching, live as if someone is. Succeed at home first. Don't spend tomorrow's money today. Pray twice as much as you fret. God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same.

Max Lucado

#42. The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

Robert McChesney

#43. Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

Compton Mackenzie

#44. As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.

Teresa Medeiros

#45. Bicycles are the most efficient vehicles on the planet, 50 times more efficient than cars, and twice as efficient as walking.

Godo Stoyke

#46. Empty the cup every time and it comes back at twice as full. I developed that attitude when I was very, very young, when I decided I didn't want to be a gangster anymore. Whether it's just shining shoes, I said okay, I'm going to do this better than anybody else did it in my life.

Quincy Jones

#47. The optimist says, "The glass is half full."
The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty."
The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
That makes it clear as glass.

Thomas Cathcart

#48. A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other hand, men spend half their income on the wives when the wife finds out about the mistress. So it all balances out.

Jay Leno

#49. She saw him after seventh hour in a place she'd never seen him before, carrying a microscope down the hall on the third floor. It was at least twice as nice as seeing him somewhere she expected him to be.

Rainbow Rowell

#50. Those pissing contests are how lords judge one another's strength, and woe to any man who shows his weakness. A woman must needs piss twice as hard, if she hopes to rule. And

George R R Martin

#51. Take a half-hour a day to really appreciate the good things you have. And you will feel great. If you want to feel twice as great double that time!

Mark M. Ford

#52. Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

Mignon McLaughlin

#53. When Americans fill a prescription, the price is routinely twice as much - sometimes ten times as much - as a Briton or a German would pay for precisely the same pills made in the same factory.

T.R. Reid

#54. ...if you don't tell people you're hurt, they're not going to stop hurting you."
Dilly snorted. "Yeah, or they're going to hurt you twice as much.

Lyn Gala

#55. Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

Adam Johnson

#56. Your child with dyslexia is twice as likely as other children to have ADD; about 15 percent of students with reading problems are also diagnosed with ADD. Conversely, a child with ADD is twice as likely to have difficulties with reading; about 36 percent of children with ADD also have dyslexia. It

Jody Swarbrick

#57. Twice as many people in India have access to cell phones as to latrines.

John Brockman

#58. A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Fannie Hurst

#59. Men are born with two eyes but only one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

#60. I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

Lorene Scafaria

#61. Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.

Steven Chu

#62. The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.

Maurice Sendak

#63. One grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is in her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one. And if he can 'defeat with great slaughter' his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.

Elbert Hubbard

#64. A determined Yankee book drummer once told a Southerner that 'a set of books on scientific agriculture' would teach him to 'farm twice as good as you do.' To which the Southerner replied: 'Hell, son, I don't farm half as good as I know how now.

Grady McWhiney

#65. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Abigail Van Buren

#66. If I aged twice as fast and lived twice as long as a normal person, would I be Wisdom Man?

Jarod Kintz

#67. If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can't find enough trucks to leave the Golden State.

Rick Perry

#68. Nonviolent campaigns against authoritarian regimes are twice as likely to succeed as violent ones.

Anonymous

#69. We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising twice as fast for families with kids.

Amelia Warren Tyagi

#70. software and gadgets. I am sure this project would have taken twice as long without your help.

T.J. Garrett

#71. All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

Sappho

#72. Even if you fly twenty times per year, you are about twice as likely to be struck by lightning.

Nate Silver

#73. In politics, everyone regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are.

Timothy B. Tyson

#74. People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.

Travis Bradberry

#75. She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she'd left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.

Ed Lynskey

#76. Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

Halldor Laxness

#77. If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

Prince Philip

#78. The studies concluded that the graviton must be massless and chargeless, and must have the quantum mechanical property known as spin-2. (Very roughly, the graviton should spin like a top, twice as fast as the spin of a photon.)

Brian Greene

#79. I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.

Andrew Stanton

#80. the psychological value of loss is twice as more as gain.

Charles Holm

#81. Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

Isaac Asimov

#82. If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.

Cassandra Clare

#83. For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

#84. Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.

Gail Carriger

#85. When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

Reba McEntire

#86. Brainstorming sounds like a great idea, but it doesn't work. Dozens of studies have demonstrated this conclusively. People produce more good ideas - twice as many - alone than they do together. One problem with brainstorming is

Eric Weiner

#87. The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

William Weld

#88. When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#89. By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

Graham Nelson

#90. In 2003, the value of Airbus's orders was more than twice as much as Boeing's.

Norm Dicks

#91. A candle that lights another no longer has to work twice as hard to illuminate a room.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#92. I'll wish for you because wanting you isn't enough and having you is too fleeting. And should we find ourselves apart, I'll wish twice as hard, and maybe, just maybe, I'll be lucky enough to run into you in one of our dreams. ~ Casey Coffield

Ginger Scott

#93. These days I have to work twice as hard to look half as good.

Renee Yancy

#94. It takes a lot of energy to be funny ... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.

Ashton Kutcher

#95. Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

#96. Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it.

Leigh Bardugo

#97. Living ain't easy, loving's twice as tough.

Bobby Vee

#98. The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Lao-Tzu

#99. A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.

Groucho Marx

#100. Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as a Lazy Achiever.

Ernie J Zelinski