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
  • Ideas

• 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

• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Stories
  • Fight
  • Intelligence

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

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Very
  • Boxing
  • Both Sides

• Welcome back, my cheeky wee monkeys.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

  

  George Meredith

• The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Desire
  • Missing
  • Alien

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

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Alien