A. A. Milne Quotes
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
Quotes to Explore
-
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
-
For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
-
When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
-
Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
-
Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
-
I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
-
I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
-
The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.
-
It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
-
When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
-
For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
-
In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.
-
I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
-
For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
-
Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.
-
The hand has the richest articulation of space.
-
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
-
I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
-
In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.
-
The first quality to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.
-
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
-
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
-
If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.
-
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
