I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin.
Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it. " Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatozoa attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese twin infants of wordidea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the raveling cosmos.
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.
Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.
I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks. '
Kreacher said nothing,” said the elf, with a second bow to George, adding in a clear undertone, “and there’s its twin, unnatural little beasts they are.
I had a twin, and he didn't make it.
I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17.
Power's twin is responsibility.
The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.
Humility and Gratitude are the twin characteristics of happiness.
I think I would have liked to have been a twin. Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I always take it as a compliment.
Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.
Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable, which means that 80% of the cause is genetic.
In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother That folks got taking me for him And each for one another. For one of us was born a twin And not a soul knew which. . . .
Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. . . . Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.