Betty Boothroyd Quotes
My desire to get here Parliament was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.
Quotes to Explore
-
What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
-
In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
-
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
-
I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
-
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
-
Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
-
When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
-
Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.
-
I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.
-
If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.
-
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
-
p. 63
-
The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely any one at all escapes.
-
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
-
I heard the hiss and felt the blessed numbness spreading. If there is a God, I thought, it’s a painkiller.
-
Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
-
There shall be no love lost.
-
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
-
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
-
...my goal was to make the kid feel heard. I didn’t mind the cliché; in fact, I admired the phrase, its rightness of fit, a mixture of the somatic and semantic; maybe it explained the desire for heavy metal that registered as touch as much as sound.
-
The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.
-
My desire to get here Parliament was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.
