Two Years Quotes - Page 26

• Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

  Robert Caro

  Party, Two, Years

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• I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.

  George Clooney

  Years, Two, Looks

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• It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Party, Years, Two

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• And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

  Joan Collins

  Book, Years, Two

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• Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

  Ann Coulter

  Blessed, Two, Eight

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• I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Taken, Years, Two

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• I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.

  Paula Deen

  Country, Morning, Years

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• I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years - or longer.

  Rita Dove

  Years, Two, Guilt

  Interview with Jesse Kornbluth for "The Book Report", www.math.buffalo.edu. April 8, 1997.

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• At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Pain, Book, Writing

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Trust, Country, Witty

  "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War that is Destroying America". Book by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel, 2007.

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• When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

  Jessica Lange

  Home, Years, Two

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• Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

  Denis Leary

  Powerful, Hate, Son

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• It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

  Tom Lehrer

  Years, Two, Age

  That Was the Year That Was (record album) (1965)

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• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  Imelda Marcos

  Home, Years, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Years, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

  Ricky Martin

  Song, Years, Two

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• A lot of people say, 'Wow, you're a single father of twin boys, that's crazy!' Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, 'Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you,' it can't get better.

  Ricky Martin

  Father, Crazy, Love You

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• I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

  Dennis Miller

  Sports, Jobs, Fun

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• For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.

  Michael Moore

  Brother, Two, Feet

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• We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

  John Oates

  Teenager, Years, Two

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• My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Two, Google

  "Remarks by the President at a DNC Dinner in Palo Alto, California". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 21, 2010.

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• I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Two, Accomplishment

  "Where is America's missing foreign policy?" by Cal Thomas, www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2014.

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• It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

  Roger von Oech

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Creativity

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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• Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

  Jean Paul

  Memories, Loss, Men

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• We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

  Rick Perry

  Texas, Years, Two

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