Joanna Lumley Quotes

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

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• I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Know
  • See
  • Possibility

• Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Health
  • Will
  • Nervous

• I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Management
  • Decisions

• When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Feeling
  • Community
  • Talk

• History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • History
  • Freedom

• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • World
  • Different
  • Day

• My tastes are Viennese.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Tastes

• George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Dark

• Henry had been around long enough to know better than to disagree. But he forgot to implement.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Long

• It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road, you never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.

  

  Elton John
  • Important
  • Road

• What means all this?

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• She broke off, unable to find words to frame her struggling thoughts. What life would be with Hori, she did not know. In spite of his gentleness, in spite of his love for her, he would remain in some respects incalculable and incomprehensible. They would share moments of great beauty and richness together - but what of their common daily life?

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Learning

• Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Work
  • Ignorance

• 'The central defect of the human mind,' Custine said, 'is its unfortunate habit of seeing patterns where none exist. Of course, that is also its chief asset.''But sometimes a very dangerous one.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Mind
  • Habit

• If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Up
  • Book
  • Reality

• True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Risk
  • Leader
  • Interest

• I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Done
  • True
  • Mistake

• There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • May
  • Doubt
  • Child

• Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • America

• There's only 10 guys making big bucks in wrestling, and the rest of them they're making good money, but they're not blowing it away.

  

  George Steele
  • Money
  • Wrestling
  • Making

• Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

  

  Joanna Lumley