Barbara Taylor Bradford Quotes
Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
-
I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.
-
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
-
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
-
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
-
Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
-
I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
-
There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
-
I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
-
I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
-
As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
-
Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
-
I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
-
I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.
-
But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
-
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
-
I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
-
We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
-
I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
-
Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.
-
I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced.
-
He wanted a home desperately. He was close to the point where he would take a mattress in Hell if the Devil would lend him a pillow.
-
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
-
Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.
