Vera Brittain Quotes

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

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• It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Luck

• I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Play
  • Name

• Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Two
  • Skills

• The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Life
  • Death
  • Die

• I have always loved really dense, complicated stories with lots of layers, tons of obscure literary references, and a plethora of inside jokes.

  

  Alethea Kontis

• I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Good

• Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • Up
  • Growing

• The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.

  

  Kevin Heffernan
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

  

  Amos Lee
  • Mother
  • Father

• I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Believe
  • Religious

• I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.

  

  Bruce Feirstein
  • Learning

• I'm not somebody with over-weening ambition.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Ambition

• The 'Friday sessions' refer to something that you're not paid for and not supposed to do during your professional life. Curiosity-driven research. Something random, simple, maybe a bit weird - even ridiculous. Without it, there are no discoveries.

  

  Andre Geim
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Weird

• In terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violence to yourself. That can be funny - we've all tripped and fallen on our faces.

  

  Andy Dick
  • Funny
  • Violence

• Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Strong
  • Words
  • Simple

• I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Broken
  • Guilty

• Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • May
  • Peace

• I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Trying
  • Perspective
  • Novelists

• Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Peace
  • Understanding
  • Force

• But whether it was a proper shame for what she had done or a shocking shame for her compunctions in sinning, the Bishop was not permitted that afternoon to discover; because when she had got as far as that she was interrupted by being obliged to faint.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Discover
  • Shame
  • Faint

• Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Place
  • Sort

• I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Oxford
  • Penetrating
  • Damp