Prince Philip Quotes

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

Prince Philip

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• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Book
  • Wind
  • Teenager

• I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Cool

• Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

  

  Ira Glass
  • She
  • Me
  • Star

• All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Reality
  • Best
  • Escape

• The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Dying

• The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Criticism

• Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.

  

  Jack Vance

• Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Practice

• Oh mercy, mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be.What about this overcrowded land?How much more abuse from man can she stand?Oh, na na...My sweet Lord... No.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • She
  • Sweet
  • Abuse

• 'It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given.' This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Innovation

• I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.

  

  Marion Bartoli
  • Stop

• I'm fighting not only for myself and for my family, but I feel I am fighting for everybody who has cancer.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Family
  • Fighting
  • Cancer

• I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.

  

  Allison Tolman

• Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

  

  Amy Chua

• If the people dig it, then I dig it. If the people wanna hear it, then I wanna play it.

  

  Bobby Keys
  • People

• My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Done
  • Belief
  • Complaining

• If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Taken
  • Hell
  • Complaining

• I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• No, I'm not anguished and tormented.

  

  George H. W. Bush

• Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

  

  Prince Philip
  • Complaining