Edgar Wallace Quotes

London waited, waited in patience, orderly, content to stare steadfastly at nothing, deriving no satisfaction for their weakness but the sense of being as near as it was humanly possible to be to the scene of a tragedy.

Edgar Wallace

• Patience
• Tragedy
• Satisfaction
• Weaness

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Film
  • Festival
  • Showing

• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Late

• A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Men
  • Gentleman
  • Wolf

• The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Idea
  • Racial
  • Gathering

• I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Myself

• I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• I don't need to impress children.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Children
  • Need
  • Impress

• I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Find

• I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Question
  • Day

• We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Me

• If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.

  

  Kate Klise
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ignorance
  • Fate

• One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Good
  • Long
  • Reality

• We learn only to ask more questions.

  

  Larry Niven

• Get but a truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new born that drops into its place; And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Earth

• One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Summer
  • Spring
  • March

• I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Done
  • Kind
  • Stupid

• A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

  

  Mary Landrieu
  • People

• I'm just trying to soundtrack your real life. I'm just trying to give you a place to feel safe in all the parts of your experience.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Body
  • Force
  • Heal

• London waited, waited in patience, orderly, content to stare steadfastly at nothing, deriving no satisfaction for their weakness but the sense of being as near as it was humanly possible to be to the scene of a tragedy.

  

  Edgar Wallace
  • Patience
  • Tragedy
  • Satisfaction