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
  • Missing
  • Police

• 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

• 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

• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happy

• Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Up
  • School
  • Money

• I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Home

• Having the opportunity to go to the U.S. Olympics was great because I was the first Latina in over 30 years to compete in gymnastics at the Olympics.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Gymnastics

• Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

  

  Ajay Devgan

• Nec speres aliquid nec extimescas,exarmaueris impotentis iram;at quisquis trepidus pauet uel optat,quod non sit stabilis suique iuris,abiecit clipeum locoque motusnectit qua ualeat trahi catenam.

  

  Boethius

• Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Writing
  • War
  • Earth

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

  

  David Niven