Lionel Blue Quotes

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

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• Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Great
  • Democracy
  • Commitment

• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Hair
  • Assets
  • Accent

• I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Sometimes

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Night
  • Wall
  • Write

• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Line

• Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

  

  Iman
  • Man
  • Singer
  • Bowie

• You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • You
  • Film
  • Yourself

• You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Change
  • Be Yourself

• As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Kid

• Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• If you come on my property, I've got you from the second that you enter on. There's little lasers... my TVs come on in my room and fall just right on you. So, there's no way to sneak up on me. And I've got a loud dog.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Way
  • Dog
  • Property

• We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Expect
  • Expecting

• There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Thinking
  • You
  • English

• There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wisdom

• I just like the themes it's exploring. In the way my character says, 'I want us to become brothers again, like we used to be.' I really like that line, and it means a lot to me. I just find there's a lot of things like that in this movie that have that feeling. There's stuff that feels exhilarating.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Feeling

• 'Have you ever seen Spode eat asparagus?'No.'Revolting. It alters one's whole conception of Man as Nature's last word.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Nature

• I truly enjoy Bono. I think he is an amazing person; I love him.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Amazing

• Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • God
  • Reality
  • Ways

• The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a war. Tomorrow they will be flying a peace, for, regardless of the world's condition, flying is their life.

  

  Ernest K. Gann
  • War
  • Characters
  • Regardless

• If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

  

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  • Mind
  • Opportunity

• We were brought up watching opening batsmen score nine before lunch. If Geoffrey Boycott flashed at a ball outside off stump in the first over of a Test match, questions were asked in Parliament. If he flashed at two, the ravens abandoned the Tower of London.

  

  Geoffrey Boycott
  • Up

• I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

  

  Lionel Blue