From the obit in The Independent.
Quotations from Borge's performances
Fuente: Tom Vallance, "Obituary: Victor Borge", The Independent (London), 26 December 2000
„I only know two tunes. One is Yankee Doodle, and the other one isn't.“
— Ulysses S. Grant 18th President of the United States 1822 - 1885
Quoted by Robert C. Winthrop in a letter http://books.google.com/books?id=kSUdAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+only+know+two+tunes+one+is+yankee+doodle+and+the+other+isn't%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage to George W. Childs (c. 1889).
„I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.“
— Patrick Rothfuss, libro El nombre del viento
Fuente: The Name of the Wind
— Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993
Fuente: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 203.
— Paracelsus Swiss physician and alchemist 1493 - 1541
Paracelsus - Collected Writings Vol. I (1926) edited by Bernhard Aschner, p. 110
— Oscar Wilde, El abanico de Lady Windermere
Mr. Dumby, Act III
Variante: There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Fuente: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
Quote of Vincent, in his letter to sister Willemien van Gogh, from Paris, late October 1887; from letter 574 - original text on vangoghletters online http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let574/letter.html
1880s, 1887
„Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.“
— Vladimir Nabokov, libro Lolita
Fuente: Lolita
— Georges Clemenceau French politician 1841 - 1929
Referring to his rival Raymond Poincaré, as quoted in Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World (2003) by Margaret MacMillan, p. 33
— Jean de La Bruyère, libro Les Caractères
Il n'y a au monde que deux manières de s'élever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbécillité des autres.
Aphorism 52
Les Caractères (1688), Des biens de fortune
— Greg McKeown (author), libro Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Twitter
„In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish—that is their strength.“
— Anton Chekhov Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860 - 1904
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 6, 1889)
Letters
— Calvin Coolidge American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929) 1872 - 1933
1920s, Unveiling of Equestrian Statue of Bishop Francis Asbury, (Oct. 15, 1924)
„A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.“
— Will Rogers American humorist and entertainer 1879 - 1935
— Example (musician) English rapper and singer 1982
"Two Lives" (song)
("Two Lives", Official video on YouTube)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn60dbD0CsE
(+ "Two Lives", a lyrics version on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLKlbUZYd_o
Studio albums, Won't Go Quietly (2010)
— Joseph Martin Kraus German composer 1756 - 1792
Ich besitze von ihm eine seiner Sinfonien, die ich zur Erinnerung an eines der größten Genies, die ich gekannt habe, aufbewahre. Ich habe von ihm nur dieses einzige Werk, weiß aber, dass er noch anderes Vortreffliches geschrieben hat.
