Melvyn Bragg Quotes

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.

Melvyn Bragg

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FutureScienceGreatAdventureThink

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

Joan Collins

LifeLiveMy LifeEnthusiasmAlways

Use your passport for domestic trips, so that way you don't risk losing your license.

Jen Kirkman

LosingYouWayRiskPassportYour

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Anatole France

BetterUnderstandLittleThanLot

I have a transient lifestyle. America is where I come to work, but my home is London. I like being bi-continental.

Tom Ellis

WorkHomeAmericaLifestyleLondon

My mother was a gorgeous person with no vanity, but she was a really good soul.

Mary Steenburgen

GoodMotherSoulVanityPersonShe

We've seen the true colours of Bisping; they come out after he fights. He likes to spit on people after fights.

Luke Rockhold

PeopleTrueOutSeenComeHe

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Janis Joplin

BluesMiserableLikeSingers

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

Jonathan Coe

WorldRegretAmericaNeverRights

I always loved comic books when I was growing up, and Spider-Man was definitely a character I gravitated towards because I loved the story of an average teenager having super powers.

Drake Bell

CharacterGrowing UpStoryLovedUp

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

Denise Dresser

PeopleTaxNeedRespondIncentives

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

Conrad Black

FaithKnowledgeWarMoralOutside

It's good for a story to have a strong style.

Shaun Evans

GoodStyleStoryStrong

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