Michael Bond Quotes

After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.

Michael Bond

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 13, 1926

Topics

ServiceWarWorldReadingRadioBig

We all make mistakes and sometimes you say things and you really don't realize what you're saying at that moment.

Jim Thome

MomentMistakesSayingYouSometimes

Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.

Joe Rogan

FunnySayWittyBrilliantQuickGuy

The fact that my body is presented as an unrealistic ideal of 'beauty' to the world doesn't stop me - or most other models - from feeling unsure about ourselves.

Andreja Pejic

BeautyMeWorldBodyFeelingStop

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie

MenCompromiseStrongWeaknessSaid

When he emerged Lou Dobbs the populist, he was so hard to peg. A mishmash of contradictions: anti-outsourcing, anti-globalization, pro-international-trade, pro-free-enterprise, anti-corporatism, pro-choice, pro-Second Amendment, pro-gay-marriage, pro-gays-serving-openly-in-the-military, pro-military, anti-war-in-Iraq-and-Afghanistan.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

HardAmendmentPro-ChoicePopulist

In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there.

Jeb Bush

JobYouStopWashingtonOpposition

Analog sounds so much better. I frankly can't listen to digital audio for more than a few hours without really starting to hate what I'm listening to. Even decent 24-bit digital resolution really irritates me after a while.

Tom Scholz

HateMeListeningBetterResolution

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Mary Kay Blakely

KnowledgeMeYearsInspiredMagical

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

Mitch McConnell

ChangeRelationshipMeProblemLooks

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers.

Judy Gold

MotherFeelTwoScaryJewishKids

I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.

Cole Sprouse

AgeSocial MediaMediaPhotography

I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston.

Bob McNair

TeamThoughtBetterHoustonPosition

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