Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Father
  • Age
  • Religion

• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Listen
  • News

• I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Want
  • Dark
  • Negative

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Looking
  • Jeans
  • Potato

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Jewish

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • Art
  • Always
  • Appreciation

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Perfect
  • Marriage
  • Broken

• If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Hourglass

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Support
  • Woman

• I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

  

  Ian McShane
  • School
  • Happy
  • Teacher

• Me and my dad, we'd go to the dirt bike races every year. I mean we'd go probably too much every year. And he would make me listen to all country music.

  

  Jamie Lynn Spears
  • Music
  • Country
  • Dad

• You can't just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.

  

  Prince Philip

• It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

  

  Sheena Easton
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, 'Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.'

  

  Plutarch
  • People

• As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the simple idea that we ought to recognize ourselves in the struggle of our fellow men and women.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • People
  • English
  • Fire