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John Betjeman Quotes

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: August 28, 1906 - May 19, 1984

Topics

Childhood Dark Reason Out Sights

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

You Know Way Never Turn Out

I've never been a bad boy.

Bad Bad Boy Boy Never Been

For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.

Matthew Ashford

Joy Me Doing Lose Want Had

I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.

Heart You Nobody Know Replace Hole

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

Honesty Men Believe Long Something

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

Moment Grateful You Look Back Will

Dan Brown and the 'Da Vinci Code' have been around well over a decade now, and to be perfectly honest, both he and it have become a joke.

Now Become Decade Over Joke Honest

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

Joseph Altuzarra

Mother Style Expectations Clothes

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

Christopher Buckley

Alone Children Time Child Become

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

Good Time People World Socialism

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

Creative Artist More Nut Thorough

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.

Forward You Down Know Now Movement

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