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Quotes About Twins

Twin one, twin too!
~ Author Unknown
A Gemini is a cross between a drunk and a genius.
~ Internet meme
The quirky flavourings of the idiosyncratic ideologue ultimately drowned in the ketchup of redheaded twins and nipples that go spung.
~ Hal Duncan
I found myself facing a man and a woman who looked so much alike, they could only be twins, or two people who had been married for a very long time. They both had pear-shaped bodies with short, thick legs and grumpy-looking arms, and it looked like they had both tried on heads that were too small for them, and were about to ask the head clerk for a larger size.
~ Lemony Snicket
I think it affected me physically and emotionally, yes. I did have my ups and downs, but I actually had more ups and downs after the shots were finished and she was pregnant because of the reality of being pregnant with twins.
~ Cheryl Tiegs
Die Dorkamese Twins.
~ P.C. Cast
When I write, I wait for the sudden appearance of signs and portents in the air, always on the lookout for secret messages encoded in graffiti or heralds disguised as strangers in the club cars of trains. A bright encounter with twins, a brother and sister, on a morning flight to Rome changed the entire configuration of the Wingo family in The Prince of Tides.
~ Pat Conroy
If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie's face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she would be the twin-sisters of chance resemblance, the living reflections of one another.
~ Wilkie Collins
It's a very old tactic," said Meredith, "and particularly obvious with identical twins." "Though new to their audience, and Bram's," said George, "who as you point out are thirteen years old.
~ William Gibson
It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
~ Chinese proverb
Dominick and James, six-year-old twins, huddled together for warmth on a pallet on the floor.
~ Christina Baker Kline
The question is, were they born in love with each other, these twins, or did it blossom? At any rate it's already happened, the onlookers agree. It must have. Ask them when they fell. The brother and sister say no, no, it's nothing like that, but what they mean is they can't remember when.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
of whoever is running those clones." "But—" "We don't have time to argue, Catalina. I'm sorry, but you're going to have to trust me." "Trust you? Just because you're from the Foundation? We should be looking for those two men who grabbed Olivia." "I'm not going to ignore those damned twins. I'll have Victor send someone to Seattle today to
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Twins were deified, and sacrificed, in a more savage culture: hypersimilitude was equivalent to the murder of the original, and thus to a pure non-meaning.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Being a twin is like being born with a best friend.
~ Unknown
Hemingway had always considered ignorance and intolerance to be like commas, because you often found them in pairs, and almost never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.
~ David Baldacci
Sebastian says modestly that though his twin resembled him very much , she was reputed to be beautiful. But more importantly, she had a mind that was just and beautiful. she drowned in salt water, leaving sebastian to drown her memories in the salt water of his tears.
~ William Shakespeare
Wurm, who had been madly in love with Nurse Waxtrap, winds up with her identical twin so considers it a wash.
~ Woody Allen
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?
~ Herman Melville
A quite rare but nevertheless important event before gastrulation in mammalian embryos, including humans, is the splitting of the embryo into two, and identical twins can then develop. This shows the remarkable ability of the early embryo to regulate and develop normally when half the normal size, just like the Driesch experiment. It also makes clear that the early embryo should not be thought of as a human being as it can still develop into two people.
~ Lewis Wolpert
I will leave you if you ever do that again," she said after the first time, and she was deadly serious, my God she was serious. She knew exactly how she was meant to behave in a situation like this. The boys were only eight months old. Perry cried. She cried. He promised. He swore on his children's lives. He was heartbroken. He bought her the first piece of jewelry she would never wear. A week after the twins had their second birthday, it happened again. Worse than the first time.
~ Liane Moriarty
On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
~ A. S. Byatt
My hope is next year Terry and I can work out a contract. I have no problem with the Minnesota Twins.
~ Scott Boras
Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television.
~ Steven Moffat