Simon Callow Quotes

My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'

Simon Callow

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• Church
• Wine
• Lord

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  Ziggy Marley
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  • More
  • Love Is

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Real
  • Know
  • Talk

• I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

  

  Gail Porter
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• I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Alien

• I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Myself
  • Creative
  • West

• Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Live
  • Better
  • Fate

• America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • America

• I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Career
  • Sometimes

• The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Power
  • New
  • Adventure

• Now, I mentioned yesterday at the town hall - like America’s first President, George Washington, he understood that democracy can only endure when it’s bigger than just one person. So his willingness to leave power was as profound as his ability to claim power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • America
  • Democracy

• He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Heart
  • She
  • Pain

• Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• Socrates’ way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Life
  • Important
  • Nature

• Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.

  

  Ken Kercheval

• My parents knew if they kept me active, I'd stay out of trouble.

  

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  • Parents

• My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Son

• It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

  

  Hank Snow
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Nice
  • Beach

• So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Home
  • Book
  • Mother

• I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Training
  • Athlete
  • Week

• Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,Fallen from his high estate,And welt'ring in his blood;Deserted, at his utmost need,By those his former bounty fed,On the bare earth exposed he lies,With not a friend to close his eyes.

  

  John Dryden
  • High
  • Earth
  • Friend

• My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'

  

  Simon Callow
  • Mother
  • Nice
  • Church