Joanna Lumley Quotes

I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

Joanna Lumley

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• What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Community
  • Financial

• Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Almost
  • Seem

• My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Guy

• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Me
  • Party
  • Dying

• As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Long
  • Family
  • Single

• Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Always
  • Solo
  • Mix

• Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • You
  • Proud
  • First

• If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Done
  • She

• I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Head
  • Big
  • Big Head

• I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Being

• I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Brother

• In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Life
  • See

• War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Men
  • Country
  • War

• Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Free
  • Reality

• I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Live
  • Literature

• Today we are sacks of shit bundled into flying tubes with a security warning secreted inside every orifice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Today
  • Flying

• Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Spiritual
  • Poverty

• The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Long
  • Forever

• I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

  

  Azim Premji
  • English

• I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical, sad history of relatively promiscuous sexual encounters with men I didn't know, because I felt that if I were involved with people I did know, other people would know that I was gay, and it was something that I needed to keep so secret.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Men
  • History

• I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Work
  • Love
  • Help

• I don't try to justify myself or defend myself. I've always done what I had to. She should know for herself that I love her, that I've loved her always, always. Those years you can't replace by words, though. After years and years, words get weaker and weaker.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Done
  • She
  • Words

• I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

  

  Joanna Lumley