David Attenborough Quotes

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

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• M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Break
  • Roles
  • Pictures

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Stand For
  • Fall For

• My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Christian
  • Principles
  • Tell

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Experience
  • Magic
  • Movies

• Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Money
  • Why
  • Government

• You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Hand
  • Fast

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Influence

• Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Book
  • Relationship
  • Excited

• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Become
  • Poison

• The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Money
  • Book
  • Together

• Angela Merkel puts Germany first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • First
  • Germany
  • Puts

• As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Child
  • Young
  • Illness

• People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Remember
  • Where

• My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.

  

  Tad Williams
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Need
  • Something
  • Mature

• There's still a place for someone to come up with a strong headline, some copy in a commercial that's well written. I'm not saying it was better in the old days; it's just a totally different way of communicating.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Up
  • Different
  • Strong

• It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

  

  Louise Jameson
  • Reading
  • Comedy

• In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • Job
  • House
  • English

• I definitely think prom should feel sophisticated. I'm not really into cutouts and all that. I would go for a more simple look - maybe a dark-colored dress and a red lip and long wavy hair; and for nails, a French tip is always classic and cute!

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Long
  • Simple
  • Dark

• In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

  

  Don DeLillo

• Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Time
  • Good
  • English