Augustine Birrell Quotes

There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

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• You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Time
  • House
  • Giving

• On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Long
  • War
  • Peace

• What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • You
  • Like
  • Look

• I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Across
  • Chest
  • Wore

• I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Trying
  • Hurt
  • Smart

• I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Done
  • Career

• I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Future
  • Good Things

• We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Old
  • Youth

• I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Space
  • Acting
  • Summer

• I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Pain
  • Hurts

• I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Bored

• Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Die
  • Imagination

• I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Play
  • Characters

• The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Film
  • First
  • Two

• I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Time
  • Business
  • Research

• Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • You
  • Speech
  • Breathing

• Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Dance
  • Stage
  • Just Because

• It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
  • Aesthetic

• Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Proud

• Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Boxing
  • Very
  • Both Sides

• I have so many favourite science fiction films. I would say 'Alien' and 'Aliens' are two of my favourite sci-fi films. Also 'Children of Men' would be one of my favourite science fiction films. I love the original 'Solaris' and the remake. And even though it wasn't a film, the series 'Battlestar Galactica' was one of my favourite TV shows.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • Men
  • Children
  • Science

• For Mercer everything is easy, he thought, because Mercer accepts everything. Nothing is alien to him. But what I’ve done, he thought; that’s become alien to me. In fact everything has become unnatural; I’ve become an unnatural self.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Done
  • Alien

• New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Alien

• There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Alien