Adrian Bell Quotes
In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair with the car. Regaining a culture where cycling is seen as an everyday part of life requires time and effort. Of course in some British towns it never really went away - just look at Oxford and Cambridge. In other places, where the car has been king for many decades, it takes more time.
Quotes to Explore
-
What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
-
I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
-
The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
-
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
-
Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
-
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
-
I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
-
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
-
The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
-
Social peace requires reciprocity.
-
It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
-
One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
-
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
-
It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.
-
I date, don't get me wrong. I'm not up here filing my fingernails on a Friday night. I want to find someone to share my life with.
-
Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
-
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
-
No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
-
In London, the home of the quick deal is that outer ring of the seven circles of hell, Tottenham Court Road, where, as a rule, finding something with an advertised price is as likely as spotting a mermaid under Vauxhall Bridge.
-
We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.
-
I'm the kind of person that likes what I'm doing when I'm doing it.
-
If Republicans truly are dedicated to the sanctity of life, they should be the first ones on the front lines trying to get policies for the uninsured.
-
My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.
-
In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair with the car. Regaining a culture where cycling is seen as an everyday part of life requires time and effort. Of course in some British towns it never really went away - just look at Oxford and Cambridge. In other places, where the car has been king for many decades, it takes more time.
