Frances Burney Quotes
A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!
Quotes to Explore
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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The truth is that I don't work any harder than anyone else in the world. I don't work 18-hour days. I don't stay up until 4 in the morning trying to finish a line.
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We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.
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I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.
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A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!
