William Pitt Quotes

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

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• I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Great
  • Live
  • City

• If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • America
  • Opinion

• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

  

  Walter F. Ulmer
  • Important
  • Job
  • Purpose

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Death
  • Personality
  • Catholic

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Political
  • Air

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Want
  • Opportunity

• It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • You
  • Answer
  • Call

• When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.

  

  Verite
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Band

• We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Good
  • Sacrifice
  • Reputation

• Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

• I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Home
  • Winning
  • Same

• When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Journalism
  • Racket
  • Freelancer

• High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.

  

  Barry Lam
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

  

  Diana Ross
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Country
  • War
  • Control

• Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Time
  • Country
  • City

• Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

  

  Dennis Potter
  • Beautiful

• The tension between public and private science is powerful.

  

  Wil S. Hylton
  • Powerful
  • Public
  • Tension

• If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

  

  William Pitt
  • Country
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  • Revolution