John Betjeman Quotes

Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans.Spare their women for Thy Sake,And if that is not too easy,We will pardon Thy Mistake.But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be,Don't let anyone bomb me.

John Betjeman

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• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Great
  • Different
  • Society

• A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Men
  • Very
  • Other

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
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• English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

  

  Yael Naim
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  • Live
  • Free

• No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

  

  Federico Fellini
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  • Think
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• My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Work
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• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Money
  • Passion
  • Destiny

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Done
  • Lies
  • Trump

• I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • School
  • Want
  • Yourself

• I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Small
  • Single

• Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Great
  • Small

• It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Weird
  • Internet
  • Someone

• Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Looks
  • Parent
  • Misfortune

• The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.

  

  John Lewis Gaddis
  • Beginning

• Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Power
  • Cinema
  • Improvisational

• You draw a district for that particular minority - African American, Asian, Hispanic - so those folks have the right to elect whoever they want. If they don't decide to elect someone who sounds like them or looks like them, they can pick anyone they want.

  

  Gene Green
  • American

• I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Men
  • Women
  • Book

• He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

  

  James Reston
  • Good
  • Work

• Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans.Spare their women for Thy Sake,And if that is not too easy,We will pardon Thy Mistake.But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be,Don't let anyone bomb me.

  

  John Betjeman
  • Women
  • Mistake