Winifred Holtby Quotes

On golf: One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

Winifred Holtby

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• I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Purpose

• Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Know
  • Player
  • Fans

• Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Good
  • Past
  • Relationship

• Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • People
  • Women
  • Parents

• When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Home
  • Play
  • Never

• The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Laughing

• I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Play
  • English
  • Cricket

• The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
  • Science
  • Earth

• I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Singing
  • Guitar
  • Kitchen

• With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Power
  • Sacrifice
  • Conviction

• No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Perfect
  • Things
  • Stupid

• I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Country
  • Wish
  • Play

• Colour can raise the dead.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Dead
  • Colour
  • Raise

• I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.

  

  Matt Cohler
  • People
  • Good
  • True

• I use my Bionic flat iron and hair dryer, all shampoo and conditioners are sulfate free, and keep the blow-drys to a minimum. If I can go two to three or even four days without washing my hair, I'll just go for it. I know, sounds gross, but otherwise, I'd be frying my hair.

  

  Edy Ganem
  • Free
  • Hair
  • Blow

• Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Friends

• I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Beautiful

• For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Memories
  • Perception
  • Civilization

• Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Brilliant
  • Fabulous
  • Gorgeous

• There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Route
  • Wonderland
  • Commanding

• On golf: One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Golf
  • Civilization
  • Defects