Edward VIII Quotes

'The Indian princes’ ceremonies are so irritating and ridiculous'

Edward VIII

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• Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Approach
  • Suit
  • Low-Key

• I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Death

• I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Me
  • Story
  • View

• In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Done
  • Character
  • Guy

• I want to be a soldier as my father was.

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Father
  • Want
  • Soldier

• From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • True
  • Judge
  • Perspective

• That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Best
  • Riled

• I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Hope
  • Emotional

• In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • America
  • You

• I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Better

• I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Comedy
  • Teenage
  • Prude

• No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Great
  • Think
  • Saying

• I'm a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You're introduced, and someone will say, 'Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He's judge!' And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Lost
  • Proud
  • Judge

• The fashion thing is something I do, and yes, it is definitely also becoming a part of myself and my personality. It also doesn't really feel like a job, either: it's a dream or a passion or something.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Fashion

• The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Power
  • King

• Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Help
  • Interesting
  • Style

• One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Great
  • Free

• A brave mind is always impregnable.

  

  Jeremy Collier
  • Mind
  • Brave

• Over the years I have learned that when I need answers to deal with crises, people, and issues, I must go to God. God will help us in everything we do if we stay in tune and if we will call on him. We must each plan our future with him in our homes, our families, and our relationships with others. If we make him our senior partner, our lives can be successful.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through life while loudly professing their amorality.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Life
  • Atheist

• I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great.

  

  Jorge Cruise
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Magic

• The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for it shape and comfort.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Different
  • Animal

• 'The Indian princes’ ceremonies are so irritating and ridiculous'

  

  Edward VIII