Two Years Quotes

• I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

  Chris Lilley

  Girl, School, Boys

  "Chris Lilley On The Bitchy Comeback Of 'Ja'mie: Private School Girl'". Interview with Tommy Wesely, Lauren Yapalater, www.buzzfeed.com. November 23, 2013.

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• Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Years, Two, Trying

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• He was no martyr. He was no hero But in the last two years, selfishness gave way to selflessness, lies gave way to truth and indulgence gave way to spirituality, and anyone watching that couldn't help but be moved by it.

  Lex Lasry

  Lying, Hero, Years

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• I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

  Albert Maltz

  Drama, School, Yale

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• It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Years, Two Year Olds, Long

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• Now, apparently strengthened as by a new spirit, with "might in the inner man," he labored with renewed energy and zeal; and new and singular blessings descended upon his labors. In two years, his ten preaching places in Anglesea were increased to twenty, and six hundred converts were added to the church under his immediate care.

  Christmas Evans

  Blessing, Men, Years

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• With such a perishable, expensive and important product buying truffles can be a leap of faith for a chef. Working with Céline over the past two years has taken away any of that stress. The level of quality and consistency with her truffles is unsurpassed. Most importantly the quality and loyalty of her service makes me feel that she is looking out for me and my guests interests in giving me an honest assessment of the markets fluctuations.

  Douglas Keane

  Loyalty, Stress, Taken

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• I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I've been doing that since I had kids. I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and I would say it's not until the last year, two years, that I'm brave enough to talk about it publicly. Now I certainly wouldn't lie, but I wasn't running around giving speeches on it." "...there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Life, Running, Lying

  "Sheryl Sandberg Leaves Work at 5:30 Every Day — And You Should Too" by Laura Donovan, mashable.com. April 05, 2012.

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• No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

  Roger Daltrey

  Baby, War, Fighting

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• It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

  Jami Gertz

  Depressing, Two, Years

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• The report begins by asserting that it is a 'comprehensive' look at Benghazi resulting from an intensive investigation of nearly two years. Neither claim is true. Instead, the report is a reflection of a dysfunctional committee and the reluctant, ad hoc approach to Benghazi of its leadership and top staff.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Reflection, Years, Two

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• I bowled for two years in college, because I was drunk and needed shoes.

  Kathleen Madigan

  College, Years, Shoes

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• I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Sleep, Years, Two

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Years, Europe

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• I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.

  Joel Siegel

  Origin Of Life, Years, Ideas

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• And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Years, Class, Two

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• I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

  Harry Shearer

  School, Years, Two

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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• I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Education, Years, Two

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Years, Two

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• How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, School, Years

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• My father...made us shop at Goodwill. I found things to wear and got Best Dressed (in the yearbook) two years in a row. I had lemons, so I made lemonade.

  Nick Cannon

  Attitude, Father, Yearbook

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• He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Winter, Islands

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.20, Hamilton Books

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• The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.

  John McAfee

  Years, Two, Viruses

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• If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.

  Werner Herzog

  Years, Two, Deals

  "12 Things I Learned at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School" by Marie-Françoise Theodore, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2012.

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• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Years, Two, People

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