#twice

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#could #doing #found #had #handle

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store! ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#candy store #eating #expensive #kid #know

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#country #dictatorship #fight #ii #injustice

I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#ankles #below #corn #i #plasters

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#because #been #defeated #failure #feelings

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. ↗

— Sissy Spacek

#appeals #before #dozen #dwarfed #else

Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals. ↗

— Michel Patini

#bar #because #consequently #course #cup

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ↗

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

#half #his #husband #income #man

I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

#gotten #i #loved #meryl #meryl streep

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings. ↗

— Robert Farrar Capon

#blot #bread #daily #day #give