Two Quotes

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.

Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

About 200 girls went into a room and there were two casting agents and they asked you to say your name and where you came from and then they picked two or three out of that. And they sent you into a room and I was really nervous and kept dropping things and I was going the wrong way and everything. Then she gave us a script and you had to learn it.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Don't get me wrong, I love my first two albums a lot.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.