Bernard Cornwell Quotes

'So I do my duty, and land in the shit.' 'You have at last seized the essence of soldiering.'

Bernard Cornwell

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Matter
  • Say
  • Wrong

• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Bride

• Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Why
  • Age
  • Play

• In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Technology
  • Trump
  • Ignorance

• I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Feel
  • Opportunities

• Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Play
  • Film
  • Actress

• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Up
  • Home
  • Game

• Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Consciousness
  • Level
  • Arises

• I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonna's eyebrows. I think it's beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Women
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Interested
  • Slickness

• Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Money
  • Age
  • Small

• It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Day
  • Cooking
  • Oil

• As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Childhood
  • Human
  • Generation

• And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Time
  • Day
  • Never Forget

• I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Father
  • Political
  • Dad

• All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • World
  • Music
  • Reading

• If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Suicide

• World, you are beautifully drest.

  

  William Brighty Rands
  • World
  • Beautiful

• Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world.

  

  Silas Weir Mitchell
  • Character
  • Conflict
  • Inner

• Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Communication

• 'So I do my duty, and land in the shit.' 'You have at last seized the essence of soldiering.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell