Simon Callow Quotes

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

Simon Callow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 13, 1949

Topics

ChildrenHappyParentsFeelUpMake

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Johannes Kepler

NaturePossibleLittleAnythingUses

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Tony Blair

MusicTruthTruth IsFeelRockMore

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.

Mary Harris Jones

ShoesMeLikeTravelsAddress

There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America.

Michelle Alexander

ControlColorAmericaRacialSystem

'No words - action' was the lesson my mother taught me: as artists, we have the privilege of holding a mirror to the world, to engage, to question, to bring beauty to a complex universe.

Mira Nair

BeautyMotherMirrorWordsMeWorld

Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.

Lisa Snowdon

LoveShoesAlwaysUpUsBargain

That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.

Dorothea Dix

MenHappyThoughtFriendsTrue

If you look at top players - Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi - so many had a parent who was domineering to the point where you really had to question his sanity. It was nuts.

Douglas Brunt

ParentYouLookQuestionTopNuts

I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the Oedipus complex. But what I actually discovered confirmed my own common experience, that you also had little boys who loved their fathers and little girls who loved their mothers.

Arnaud Desplechin

TimeExperienceLittle GirlsLoved

Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.

Pete Rose

BaseballDoingPrettyWellBeen

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

Richard M. Nixon

ManPeopleThinkYouKnowNothing

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

Nikola Tesla

GoodFoodPerformancePlantDoubt

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