Mary Beard Quotes

What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.

Mary Beard

Truth

Quotes to Explore

I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

Eartha Kitt
- People
- Time
- Fun
There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

A. J. Cook
- Learned
- Grateful
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

Ed Harris
- Interesting
- Me
- Challenge
I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

Imelda May
- Live
- Art
- College
You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.

Gary Lineker
- Long
- High
- Age
I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
- Music
- Mind
- Job