Edmund Crispin Quotes

The masters, robed, gowned, their attitudes varying from indulgent ennui to virtual coma.

Edmund Crispin

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• I've always been happy with my body.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Body

• I've never tried to manipulate my image.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Image
  • Tried
  • Manipulate

• I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.

  

  Wade Guyton
  • Up
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Art
  • Author

• Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Animal
  • Disease
  • Funny Inspirational

• I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Live
  • Want
  • Giving

• To me, my recipes are priceless.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Priceless
  • Recipes

• Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!

  

  Prince William
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Father

• I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Remember
  • Soul
  • Friend

• I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Beautiful
  • Memories
  • Purity

• He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Error
  • Felicity
  • Dregs

• Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

  

  Susan Oliver
  • Nation
  • Merit
  • Get Up

• In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.

  

  Elliott Colla
  • English
  • Language
  • Masters

• The masters, robed, gowned, their attitudes varying from indulgent ennui to virtual coma.

  

  Edmund Crispin
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