David Farr Quotes
I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts out a bandit but becomes a fully fledged aristocrat.
Quotes to Explore
-
The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
-
Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
-
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
-
I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
-
All four majors are definitely a priority.
-
Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
-
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
-
If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
-
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
-
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
-
I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
-
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
-
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
-
If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
-
As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
-
We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
-
The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
-
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
-
At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.
-
Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
-
History breaks down in images not into stories.
-
If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.
-
I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts out a bandit but becomes a fully fledged aristocrat.
