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

• I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.

  

  Ciara
  • Heart
  • Girl

• When you're a musician, anything you do creatively, you don't ever want to feel like you're on the way down. Not in the amount of money you make or success, but in your creativity. You want to always feel like you're making things that are better than what you did a few years ago.

  

  Sam Bettens
  • Success
  • Creativity
  • Musician

• New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

  

  Pete Hamill

• It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Community
  • Relationship
  • Poverty

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

  

  Bernard Cornwell