Aneurin Barnard Quotes

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

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• I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Authority
  • Brains

• If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Funny
  • Weird
  • Direction

• People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Smile
  • Songs

• Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nobody
  • Santa
  • Santa Claus

• With publicity comes humiliation.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Publicity
  • Humiliation

• I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Know
  • Places
  • Uncomfortable

• I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Think
  • Find
  • Dinosaur

• It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Congress

• I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Live
  • Television
  • Radio

• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Want
  • Me
  • Process

• To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Mind

• One day Donald Trump discovers that he is owned, lock, stock, and roulette wheel, by Lutheran Brotherhood, and must renegotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120 for a suit.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Why
  • Trump
  • Stock

• They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge … no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command … But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Time
  • May
  • Knowledge

• The black earth drinks, in turnThe trees drink up the earth.The sea the torrents drinks, the sun the sea,And the moon drinks the sun.Why, comrades, do ye flout me,If I, too, wish to drink?

  

  Anacreon
  • Up
  • Why
  • Black

• When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • Work

• I don't believe in having a rest day.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Believe
  • Rest

• Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Wealth
  • Scatter
  • Amassed

• I'm not here to hurt anyone or harm anyone.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Hurt
  • Here
  • Harm

• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Drama
  • Finished
  • Symphonies

• I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

  

  Aneurin Barnard