Colin Firth Quotes

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

Colin Firth

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• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Conscience
  • Follow

• Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Propaganda
  • Momentum
  • Masses

• You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • You
  • Difference

• I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Beauty is whatever gives joy.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Joy
  • Beauty
  • Whatever

• Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • People
  • Good
  • Hope

• The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Business
  • Challenges

• Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Living
  • Instruments

• 'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • American
  • Man
  • Me

• If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Good
  • Seen

• In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • She
  • Together

• My musical career was an accident.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Career
  • Musical
  • Accident

• I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Saying

• If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • Find
  • Little

• I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Together
  • Strong

• In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Soul
  • Security
  • Losing

• Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Children
  • Week
  • Lunch

• Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

  

  Michael Flatley
  • Done
  • Success
  • Close

• It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and, indeed, the whole of our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, should speedily be filled up by a hardy and patriotic population.

  

  James K. Polk
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

  

  Josiah Royce
  • World
  • God
  • Inspires

• I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

  

  Kris Allen
  • Music
  • Words
  • Emotional

• Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

  

  Colin Firth