David Lloyd Quotes

If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

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• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Suggestions

• If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • You
  • Door
  • Sugar

• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• It is hard to say no to PSG - as with all teams capable of winning the Champions League, There is always uncertainty in football.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Football
  • Always
  • Winning

• I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Learning

• I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Book
  • Think
  • Food

• At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Know
  • Fashion
  • Sense

• Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World

• Belinda was as brave as a barrel full of bears,And Ink and Blink chased lions down the stairs,Mustard was as brave as a tiger in a rage,But Custard cried for a nice safe cage.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Nice
  • Brave
  • Tiger

• If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Music
  • Hope

• I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Meaningful
  • Farewell

• You have never been blessed out or bawled out or chewed out unless you got it from The Boo in his prime. Did I say he was five times louder than God? I'm sorry if that sounds sacrilegious and it certainly is not true. The Boo was at least ten times louder than God and I was scared of him my entire cadet career.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • God
  • True
  • Career

• Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • Serious
  • Wise
  • Charity

• In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Bridge

• The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Play
  • Fire

• We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Water
  • Universe
  • Fire

• If I am able to carry on modeling, I'll be very happy to, but my passion is definitely in music and acting. I would love to do what Meryl Streep is doing. Her or Judi Dench, or maybe Charlize Theron as well.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Music
  • Love
  • Happy

• Die Eitelkeit weist jede gesunde Nahrung von sich, lebt ausschließlich von dem Gifte der Schmeichelei und gedeiht dabei in üppigster Fülle.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Die

• If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

  

  David Lloyd
  • Fire
  • Tests
  • Engines