Anthony Trollope Quotes
'Aid from heaven you may have,' he said, 'by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.'
Quotes to Explore
-
Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
-
I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
-
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
-
Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
-
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
-
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
-
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
-
The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
-
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
-
In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
-
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
-
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
-
I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
-
I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
-
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
-
When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
-
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
-
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
-
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
-
I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.
-
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."
-
While domestically the president may be able to somewhat reshape his/her image through defining moments and actions, this is far less feasible internationally.
-
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
-
'Aid from heaven you may have,' he said, 'by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.'
