Celia Johnson Quotes

I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

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• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  

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• I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

  

  Ice T
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  • Week
  • Can

• I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Day

• There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • You
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• It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Train
  • General
  • Casualties

• Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Country
  • History
  • Threats

• The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Revolution

• Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Good Men
  • Rhinoceroses

• Light does not come from light, but from darkness.

  

  Mircea Eliade
  • Light
  • Darness

• I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

  

  Maria Callas
  • Dignity
  • Maria
  • La Callas

• The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

  

  Steve Chabot
  • Compromise
  • Democrats
  • Votes

• Never put an age limit on your dreams.

  

  Dara Torres
  • Dream
  • Sports
  • inspirational

• America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

  

  Joseph Nye
  • America
  • Values
  • Ethnicity

• Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.

  

  Claude Maxwell MacDonald
  • Same
  • Side
  • Majority

• When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Fairness
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

  

  Zoe Akins
  • Tree
  • Flower
  • Bitter

• What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.

  

  Corinne Maier
  • Time
  • Do
  • Pointless

• Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Canada
  • Walls

• We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.

  

  Danny Carey
  • Politicians
  • Barriers
  • Walls

• I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

  

  Celia Johnson
  • Walls
  • Thrillers
  • Leant