Bernard Crick Quotes

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

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• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • True
  • Because
  • False

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Action
  • Military
  • Terrorism

• I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• America is addicted to wars of distraction.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Wars
  • Distraction

• Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Education
  • Human

• Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Law

• What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Father
  • Political
  • Small

• In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Future
  • Past
  • View

• I drink therefore I am.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Drink

• I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Everything
  • Letters
  • Ever

• I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Believe
  • Prime

• I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Accepting

• So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Up
  • Like
  • Enough

• My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• I always sang at temple growing up. I got a good reaction from Mrs. Goldberg and Mrs. Rosenbaum and the other old ladies.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Causes
  • Events
  • Histories

• When I started writing, I said, 'I don't know how to do this. I don't know if it sounds good.' Coming from being an underdog or being told that something wasn't for you over and over repeatedly, it took a lot out of me. It took a lot of my self-confidence.

  

  Khalid
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Confidence

• So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Influence
  • Legacy
  • Given

• I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

  

  Gary Lucas
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Create
  • Chaos
  • Revolutionary