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Tom Chatfield Quotes

Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years.

Tom Chatfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: 1980

Topics

Past World Years Within Literacy

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

Robert Robinson

More Never Where Found Penicillin

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

Andy Serkis

Myself Me Think Play Growing Moral

People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

John Schneider

Alone Children Politics Parents Baby

When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.

Steve Coogan

Me You Find I Can Become Need

The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.

Tom Hodgkinson

Good Day War Value World Pressure

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

Rosemary Mahoney

People Trying True Please Guess

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes

Life Madness Too Much See May Much

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.

Joseph Rotblat

Science Human Nuclear Weapons Whole

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

Don Herold

Funny One Thing About Thing Neat

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

Chris Matthews

Me Look Difference See Clown Four

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Colin Powell

Politics Purpose War Support People

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Bob Marley

Yourself You Smoke Herb Reveals