Brian Horrocks Quotes
Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be.Brian Horrocks
Quotes to Explore
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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
Walter Hill -
My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
Nancy Pelosi -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
Gail Carson Levine -
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
Fede Alvarez -
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
Sally Kellerman
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I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
Pat Nixon -
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
Garth Ennis -
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
J. C. Chandor -
Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
Kate Christensen -
A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
Sam Hunt
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Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.
Haley Bennett -
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
Barry White -
When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
Carlton Cuse -
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
Damon Lindelof -
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
Joanne Rowling -
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
P. D. James
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
Rahul Dravid -
When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.
Carla Hall -
When I'm home in New York, I box every day.
Gigi Hadid -
I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.
Hector Elizondo -
Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be.
Brian Horrocks