Dennis Potter Quotes

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

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• As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Grow

• I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Country
  • Think
  • Running

• Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

  

  Tablo
  • Love
  • You
  • Doing

• The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Up
  • American
  • Game

• Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Think
  • Know
  • Road

• I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Doing

• Business today consists in persuading crowds.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Business
  • Today
  • Persuading

• I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Universe
  • End
  • Looking

• I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Like
  • Color
  • Weakness

• Writing has never been that simple for me.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Simple

• My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • College

• The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • Together
  • Age

• Caffeine. The gateway drug.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Drug
  • Caffeine
  • Gateway

• Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Chance
  • Jail
  • Ship

• The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Movie
  • Freedom
  • Challenge

• For me, I like to look presentable when I'm outside. I'm not going to come to the office with nasty hair and pajamas just because I stayed up all night - that's just who I am.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Hair
  • Office
  • Nasty

• If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

  

  Gary Locke
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Chinese

• When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Fear
  • Fall
  • Sky

• He didn't repudiate what he said (in 1985), ... What he did say is that he has changed since that time over 20 years, and of course the court rulings have also been issued that established the precedent and reaffirmed Roe.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Time
  • Changes
  • Court

• What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Black
  • Secret
  • Charity

• Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on.

  

  Winnie Ewing
  • Want
  • Scotland

• Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Joy
  • Muslims
  • Integration

• I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

  

  Dennis Potter