Frederic Raphael Quotes

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Frederic Raphael

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• Nothing ever goes away.

  

  Barry Commoner
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  • Away
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• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • Soul
  • Purpose

• I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Important
  • Long
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• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Light
  • Single

• We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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  • Choose
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• You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Military
  • Number
  • Watched

• In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Run

• The biggest things in life are not materials.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Life
  • Things
  • Materials

• Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Design
  • Easy
  • Performance

• My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Important
  • Faith

• I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Work
  • Country
  • Friends

• I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Birds
  • Realism
  • Unrealistic

• If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Children
  • Company
  • Others

• The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beginning
  • Magic
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• I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Kind

• If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

  

  Marsha Norman
  • Life
  • Music
  • Vision

• I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Country
  • Strong

• When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'

  

  Marc Faber
  • People
  • Gold
  • Optimistic

• One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Never
  • Not Know

• If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, Pure, hard, certain — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.

  

  Savitri Devi
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Certain

• The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

  

  Frederic Raphael