In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why. – Edmund Morgan
You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!… but if it doesn’t hit with the public in two minutes, it’s bye-bye. – Charlotte Rae
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man’s brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. – Franz Schubert
I’ve grown up so much here. It’s been two years. I’ve become a woman here, I’ve become an actress here. – Elisabeth Rohm
This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn’t gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S. – Mario Monti
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event. – Elon Musk
So I’ve never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking. – Neville Marriner
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that ‘belief’ must be discarded and replaced by ‘the scientific method. – Max Born
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie
Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other. – Nassau William Senior
When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years. – David Sze
All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. – Evan Davis
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs – Two different pairs – Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece. – Elliott Carter
Luther was guilty of two great crimes – he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. – Desiderius Erasmus
I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they’re not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that’s how it works, and I’m okay with it. – Cuba Gooding, Jr.
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I’m not a great pianist, jokes were my thing. – Gad Elmaleh
I was born in Texas and I lived there ’till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew. – Michelle Rodriguez
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace. – Gifford Pinchot
I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there’s nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there’s nothing wrong with a bud or two! – Eddie Money
