David Niven Quotes

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

David Niven

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Without

• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Understanding

• Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Service
  • Grow

• I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Work
  • Business
  • Age

• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Wife
  • Police
  • Missing

• With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • World
  • Imagination

• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Love
  • City
  • Tokyo

• Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

  

  Quintus Tullius Cicero
  • Meetings
  • Public Policy

• When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Me
  • Fashion
  • Travel

• The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Job
  • Youth
  • Teen

• Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • God

• When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.

  

  Patanjali
  • Mind

• O ye men, whoever amongst you worshipped Muhammad, let him know that Muhammad is dead, and whoever amongst you worshipped Allah, let him know that Allah is Living, there is no death for Him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Men
  • Death

• Are you Earthseed? Do you believe? Belief will not save you. Only actions guided and shaped by belief and knowledge will save you. BeliefInitiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Save

• As for the exhortation with which Mr. --- closes his letter, that I will not 'go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there,' I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Husband
  • Slavery

• 'Course numb is an old hat, old as my oldest memories.See that one's my mother, and that one's my father, and that one in the hat, that's me.It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon, when I got out on the open road,But any more pent up emotion and I think I'm gonna explode.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• The Ramans do everything in threes.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke

• My music style has changed and evolved so much throughout the years and I take inspiration from many diverse artists.

  

  Netta
  • Style
  • Inspiration
  • Artists

• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Couple

• Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Author
  • Afraid
  • Honest Trade

• The United States cannot have the image of warmongers, with all the potential consequences it could have for our respective countries.

  

  Marine Le Pen

• The re-establishment of a hard border on the island of Ireland would be a step backwards and present an opportunity for others, with malign agendas, to exploit for destructive purposes.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Opportunity
  • Present

• I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

  

  David Niven