How is the Empire?

How is the Empire?

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.

Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

You dont shoot elephants you ride themyou might as well shoot your charger.

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

I hope to get my name out there more in the Spanish-language business side of the world.

I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.

Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is one of disappointment. This change was the result of close observation on the spot.

We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.

When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.

I want to be helpful to the charities I support. I think you can dilute it, the more you do. You have to be a bit strong about what you do... otherwise, you risk spreading yourself a bit thin, and you can be less useful.

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

I know what I like, and I'm not trying to adapt to new things.

I let people off the hook too easily.

Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.

I hate, hate Times Square!

I looked at one little print for a long time. It was called 'The Landing.' It showed men tugging on a rope, pulling a boat up onto skids out of the water. The thought occurred to me that I might paint such a picture.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

What people unfortunately relate to when they think of Alaska oil was when the Exxon Valdez went aground because of a captain that was drunk. But when you look to how we have been safely producing and moving Alaska's oil for decades, it is a track record that is enviable.

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.

In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: 'To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day, thou cans't be false to any man.'

There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.