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

• Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Up
  • Live
  • Remember

• The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Pope
  • Divisions

• To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

  

  Alexis Herman
  • Different
  • Action

• There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

  

  Jan Karon
  • People
  • Small

• Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

  

  Douglas Kirkland
  • Life
  • Different
  • Today

• 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