Beverley Nichols Quotes

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Beverley Nichols

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• I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Power
  • Support
  • Constitution

• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Person
  • Lie
  • Point

• All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Work
  • You
  • Jump

• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Different
  • Man

• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Up
  • Situation
  • Dreaming

• And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Feelings

• Spirituality is a growth industry. And nothing illustrates that better than the burgeoning crop of colossal sanctuaries sprouting up in suburbs across the land.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Up
  • Growth
  • Better

• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Man
  • Question

• If I'm playing a gig in London, it feels so important. The adrenaline rush here is bigger than anywhere else. I kind of like the pressure that London puts you under.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • You
  • London

• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Song
  • You
  • Band

• I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Never
  • Lose
  • Clothes

• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Action

• Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Good
  • Love
  • Strong

• What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Government
  • Balance
  • Belief

• Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • God
  • Believe
  • Earth

• Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Daughter
  • Sister

• I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

  

  Albert Pujols
  • Baseball

• I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Time
  • Believe
  • May

• I go with the flow of the film. I feel if it's the demand of the script, then you should do it.

  

  Kriti Sanon

• There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There's no criminality to it. So, it was just like, 'It's over,' and thus, because it was over, and it was never considered 'wrong' in the prosecutable, criminal sense of the word, the country doesn't take it as wrong.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Country
  • Slavery

• It is rather striking to think that the very core of the Christian message, salvation itself, the sacrifice of God's own son to rescue humanity from eternal damnation, should be framed in the language of a financial transaction.

  

  David Graeber
  • God
  • Christian
  • Humanity

• So many comedians, if you asked them, 'What's your priority in standup?' it's probably gonna be to make people laugh or to entertain them. That is just way down on my priority list, if on my list at all. I'm into breaking records. If I can do a set and break a record and get no laughs, I'm happy.

  

  Matt Besser
  • People
  • Happy
  • Priority

• A poem releases itself, it does it with cadence.

  

  Mark Strand

• To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

  

  Beverley Nichols