Wilfrid Hyde-White Quotes

Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave.

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• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years.

  

  Donald Davis
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• Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.

  

  Robert Frost
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• In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses.

  

  Philip Caputo
  • War
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• He who shall teach the child to doubt The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

  

  William Blake
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• Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Possibilities
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• Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Rain
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• What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

  

  George Eliot
  • Business
  • Marry
  • Grave

• Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Voice
  • Grave
  • Pulpits

• While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Friends
  • Lovers
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• You know it's always funny - the more legend awards you get, the closer you get to the grave, I guess, i am going full strength right now so it's great to get these while you're alive, I'd hate to get them after you're dead.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Dead
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  • Legend awards

• When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Wisdom
  • I Love
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• Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Know
  • Grave
  • Coffin

• The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal

  

  Emily Dickinson
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• Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

  

  Tim Ferriss
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• Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Politics
  • Disease
  • Grave

• If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.

  

  Anastas Mikoyan
  • Turn
  • Grave
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• I got an attitude, that's rude because I walked over Elvis' grave in some blue suede shoes.

  

  Akinyele
  • Shoes
  • Grave
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• We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.

  

  Elizabeth Keckley
  • Death
  • Travel
  • Darkness

• I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Build
  • Grave
  • I Remember

• I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Story
  • Reaching
  • Long Way

• Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Looking

• Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave.

  

  Wilfrid Hyde-White
  • Grave
  • Illegitimate
  • Buck Rogers