Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes

Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

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• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Down
  • Cat
  • Clever

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Learning

• History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Home
  • History
  • Think

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Up
  • Important
  • Education

• Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Time
  • She
  • Funny

• Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Science

• How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

  

  David Gergen
  • Future
  • Heaven

• It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Small

• People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Up

• All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

  

  Rita Ora

• I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Simple

• I always played games with my friends, but as I got older, my friends stopped playing.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Friends

• I'm going to disappear again.

  

  Chuck Robb

• I think if you're consistent in this league, you'll win a lot of ball games.

  

  Jason Kidd

• I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • People
  • Up
  • City

• If you don't go talk to your boss, if you don't go talk to your mentors, if you don't go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don't know. And they're not mind readers.

  

  Brian Krzanich
  • People
  • Mind
  • Boss

• There has to be a consensus and this is a report, a set of circumstances, that the international community simply cannot ignore.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Community
  • Circumstances
  • Ignore

• If ISIL were to substantially increase the priority it places on attacking the West rather than fighting to maintain and expand territorial control, then the group's access to radicalized Westerners who have fought in Syria and Iraq would provide a pool of operatives who potentially have access to the United States and other Western countries.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • Control
  • Fighting
  • Priority

• Water's about everything. And when the federal government controls water, it controls everything - that's the problem.

  

  Paul Gosar
  • Control
  • Government
  • Water

• George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those 'Oceans' films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Work
  • Money
  • Together

• Better late than never.

  

  Matthew Henry

• Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

  

  Alexander Gordon Smith
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  • Inmates