Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes

That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Great
  • Done
  • Kids

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Done
  • Always
  • Digital

• Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Wait
  • Minute

• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Life
  • Me
  • Difference

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Movie
  • Singing
  • Dancing

• I like working on my birthday, so I always do.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Always
  • Working
  • Birthday

• In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Many
  • Did
  • Dictators

• You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Book
  • Age
  • Black

• I choose work with the people I like to work with.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Choose

• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory and good fortune.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Good
  • War

• The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Life
  • High

• My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

  

  Moliere
  • Friendship
  • Fair

• The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex a being for any one of them to have the casting vote. If any one of them do have the casting vote, it is more likely to be the strength of his desire and passion, the strength of the interest he takes in what is proposed. Concentration, memory, reasoning power, inventiveness, excellence of the senses, all are subsidiary to this.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Passion

• I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Eyes
  • Dark
  • Eye

• You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

  

  George Clooney
  • Growing
  • Actors
  • Singers

• That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

  

  Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  • Friendship