Edgar Wallace Quotes
...mankind is not perfect, less perfect is womankind, and least perfect is that section of mankind which employs servants.
Quotes to Explore
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
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I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
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I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.
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Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.
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American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.
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I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.
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I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.
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I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12 and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but also my work as well.
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I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky has been a revelation - he brings out all its raw passion. And Gergiev with the super-virtuoso LSO - well, it's just the perfect combination.
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I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.
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...mankind is not perfect, less perfect is womankind, and least perfect is that section of mankind which employs servants.
