Jeffrey Bernard Quotes

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

Jeffrey Bernard

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• I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Try
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• It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Night
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• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Political
  • Speech

• Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Mind
  • Hope

• The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Air

• Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Violence
  • Dumb

• I grew up in the Bronx.

  

  Chris Hayes
  • Up

• I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

  

  James Nesbitt

• I think I'm someone you would really break down easily, so I have to work on that.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Work

• The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.

  

  Alex Turner

• A lot of my friends who I wrote or produced songs for came back and helped me make 'Pages.' It's better than I ever could have imagined.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Friends

• Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.

  

  Kenneth Oppel
  • Good
  • She
  • Sky

• If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

  

  David Schwimmer

• I always loved the retail entertainment sector, like FAO Schwartz, where it's a little more exciting than just going into a little corner deli candy place.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Candy

• Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres

• The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
  • Country

• When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

  

  Christa McAuliffe
  • Wonder

• The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • American

• There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Like
  • Short
  • Twitter

• Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Why

• And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

  

  Donna Leon
  • People
  • Live
  • Famous

• I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.

  

  Big Sean
  • Good
  • Song
  • Heartfelt

• There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

  

  Jeffrey Bernard
  • Champagne