Vera Brittain Quotes

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

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• When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • You
  • Talk

• Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • America
  • History
  • Thought

• My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Comedy

• The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Charity

• I really feel that the thing that I love the most about my career is that it is so eclectic. You know, I've gone from so many genres and so many different mediums and I love that most - that people have always given me the chance to do vastly different things.

  

  Katie Finneran
  • People
  • Different
  • Career

• Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.

  

  Daryn Kagan
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Focus

• Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Travel

• I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.

  

  Peta Wilson
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I told my extremely conservative, uber-traditional Korean father, 'Hey, Dad, I know what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to be an actor.'

  

  Kenneth Choi
  • Life
  • Father
  • Dad

• At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

  

  Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Good
  • Green

• Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Community

• Art is not only about angst.

  

  John Corigliano
  • Art

• I would have studied English, but I really don't like to read.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • English

• The funeral and the marriage, now, alas!We know not which is sadder to recall.

  

  Emma Lazarus
  • Marriage
  • Funeral

• My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • People
  • Interesting

• I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hope

• When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Military
  • Capability

• The great workman of nature is time.

  

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Workman

• Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

  

  Morris Chestnut
  • Story
  • Producing

• If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency.

  

  Eric Massa
  • War
  • I Believe
  • Commander

• The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and accurate instruments, but they apply these to very inferior materials. The physical chemists combine both these characteristics in that they apply imprecise methods to impure materials.

  

  Wolfgang Ostwald
  • Science
  • Poor
  • Excellent

• Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

  

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