A. P. Herbert Quotes

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

A. P. Herbert

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• I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Never
  • Kid

• Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Family
  • Father
  • Girl

• I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Joy
  • Socks

• I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Father
  • Want
  • Know

• Sometimes we do things that are really awful.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Awful

• I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Positive
  • Depression

• I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Wonder
  • Child
  • Destiny

• I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Think
  • Vanity

• Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sometimes
  • Fans
  • Ugly

• I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Age
  • Today
  • Wish

• I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Like
  • Awesome
  • Brilliant

• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • School
  • Know
  • Fight

• I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • World
  • Proud
  • Broadway

• I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Like
  • Learned

• To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Children
  • Love
  • Relationship

• Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

  

  Red Smith
  • Writing
  • Drop
  • Bleed

• Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Fan
  • Disaster
  • Agriculture

• With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.

  

  Leigh Brackett
  • Believe
  • Luck

• I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Man
  • Hate
  • System

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System