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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. -- Lord Byron
You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.' -- Asif Kapadia
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental. -- Michael Mandelbaum
I am tremendously excited to introduce a unique 'Metal Gear Solid' experience to a new audience of gamers as well as collaborate with my mentor in game design, Mr. Miyamoto, on 'Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes' for Nintendo GameCube. -- Hideo Kojima
It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others. -- John Eldredge
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show. -- Rebecca Hall
'Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show. -- Rebecca Hall
Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. -- Kim Edwards
In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent -- David Lynch
Twin Peaks' is my favorite show of all time. -- James Roday
'Twin Peaks' is my favorite show of all time. -- James Roday
I'm using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage. -- Ike Turner
I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting. -- Thom Yorke
I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.' -- Amanda Palmer
'Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor. -- Richard Beymer
Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor. -- Richard Beymer
I loved the movie 'Heathers' and the TV show 'Twin Peaks.' -- Sara Shepard
Weirdly also listening to a lot of Aphex Twin again, I loved Syro. -- Ralph Lawson
'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself. -- Mark Frost
Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate -- Matsuo Basho
And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy. -- Jack Nance
I'm definitely partial to the "Twin Twist." I've always found that to be really fun. -- Allison Grodner
He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves -- John Mallory Asher
Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing. -- Michael J. Anderson
Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities -- Robert Stephens
It's really cool what you can do with a guitar and a Fender Twin and a space echo. -- Tamaryn
I think the amazing thing about Twin Peaks was that it completely changed television from that point forward. -- Madchen Amick
I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. -- Madchen Amick
Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it. -- Kyle MacLachlan
It's like never hearing a Joy Division album or something. I'm finally watching Twin Peaks, and I'm so into it. -- Emily Ratajkowski
By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities. -- Harrison Salisbury
Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close. -- John Keats
Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff. -- Clive James
They're Twin-like," Shaunee said. "Hilarious," Erin agreed. "Shut up!" Aphrodite and Stevie Rae said together, which made the Twins convulse into laughter. -- P. C. Cast
Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to see the Indians win. -- Corey Koskie
One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever. -- Lesli Linka Glatter
Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real. -- Sarah Palin
It is home. The Twin Cities are home and [Ames] is home. It's definitely always a place that's going to be very special to me. -- Royce White
I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles -- Sara Niles
Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to. -- Cary Fukunaga
The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15. -- Neon Hitch
Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And here, my dear friend, is the glory. -- Emily Dickinson
Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream. -- James Wolcott
Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early 90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that. -- Sherilyn Fenn
This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distances. The fair draws people from as far away as Albert Lea, Owatonna and the Twin Cities. -- Eddie Murphy
The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time. -- Mark Frost
Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable. -- Philippe Petit
I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!" -- Justin Broadrick
Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that. -- Sherilyn Fenn
So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else. -- Kim Edwards
We get several requests for contributions each year from organizations in Twin Falls. We don't have enough money in the general fund to help everyone, so we use fundraisers like this to generate money. -- Rick Cook
I'm not a teen anymore, but growing up, some of my favorite things were, like, 'Twin Peaks,' which wasn't even really my time, and this is one of the things, like a weird, quirky, small town mystery. -- Troian Bellisario
It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen. -- Jonny Greenwood
As good as 'Twin Peaks' was, and I mean, it's a superb work that's way ahead of its time, and we've never caught up, and we never will... I mean, we will never catch up to 'Twin Peaks.' -- Michael J. Anderson
I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks. -- Sheryl Lee
I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television. -- Michelle Forbes
Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested. -- Philippe Petit
In the forest of primeval A school for Good and Evil Twin towers like two heads One for the pure And one for the wicked Try to escape you'll always fail, The only way out is Through a fairytale. -- Soman Chainani
The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's supposed to resemble New York City, ... Look, we even have the Twin Towers on there. -- Mike Wells
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. -- Jonny Greenwood
Whenever I left New York, the Twin Towers welcomed me back in. It was a symbol of my city - the most unique city in the world, so when I moved to Virginia and later to Maryland, it meant even more. -- Monica Johnson
This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God. -- Noah Cicero
One of the only TV shows that I really love is 'Twin Peaks.' Kyle McLachlan plays Agent Dale Cooper, and I love Dale Cooper, so I'm in love with Kyle McLachlan. He could be my dad, so it's really weird. -- Jane Levy
I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that. -- Matthew Gray Gubler
And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground. -- Jacques Rivette
In a sense, 'Twin Peaks' never really went away. They've got a 'Twin Peaks' convention up in Washington every year, and I'm pretty much recognized on a fairly regular basis from 'Twin Peaks,' so I feel like it never really got too far away. -- Michael J. Anderson
You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh. -- Leslie Jamison
The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty villages in Afghanistan didn't matter, even though it now seems that their numbers were greater. The people who will die in Iraq don't matter. -- John Pilger
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack. -- Seamus Heaney
I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine. -- Mark Frost
We shot that in Morocco, and got out of the country at the beginning of July - and two months later came the attack on Twin Towers. The movie was then released in December, so that kind of atmosphere is not something that was unfamiliar to me. -- Eric Bana
I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A. -- Aaron Paul
I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing? -- Sherilyn Fenn
It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who have hijacked Islam for their own purposes. It's important not to fall into that trap and to try to respond with a metaphysical retaliation of some sort. -- Edward Said
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. -- Khalil Gibran
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery. -- Joan Rivers
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister. -- Sherri Shepherd
The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin. -- Sam Underwood
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? -- Walt Whitman
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life. -- Dean Koontz
At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both. -- William Ivey Long
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace. -- Edward Lear
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. -- Taiye Selasi
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity. -- Jeffrey Sachs
In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up. -- Eddie Izzard
From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double. -- Orhan Pamuk
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. -- Paul Davies
It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time. -- Ali Smith
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since. -- Amy Waldman
I have so many strong opinions on the entertainment industry, but if I'm in a deli somewhere, and someone says they love that Adam Sandler movie where he dresses up as his twin sister - well, I don't want to make people feel bad for how they feel about things. I'm always courteous, not mean. -- Andy Kindler
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
Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Power's twin is responsibility ... -- Willa Gibbs
Immortality--twin sister of Eternity. -- J. G. Holland
Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister. -- Dean Frazer
Despair the twin-born of devotion. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Indulgence, twin sister of guilt. -- Suzanne Curchod
Happiness was born a twin. -- Lord Byron
Prejudice is the twin of illiberality. -- George D. Prentice
Freedom and Justice are twin sisters. -- Friedrich Ebert
Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance. -- Andy Hargreaves
I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17. -- Lee Majors
Women are the twin halves of men. -- Muhammad
Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers. -- Homer
Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. -- Witold Gombrowicz
Effort is the siamese twin of success -- Shane Koyczan
Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy. -- Henry Ward Beecher
One dupe is as impossible as one twin. -- John Sterling
As a twin, I operate with twin desires. -- Kehinde Wiley
I fought with my twin, the enemy within. -- Bob Dylan
Hot hate is twin brother to hot love. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
There are no twin souls in God's universe. -- J. G. Holland
The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty. -- Theodore T. Munger
Youth and nepotism, the twin horsemen of Hollywood! -- Susan Dunlap
Saying of the ProphetWomenWomen are the twin-halves of men. -- Idries Shah

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