Craig Brown Quotes

Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.

Craig Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 23, 1957

Topics

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I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.

John Oliver

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I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.

Amanda Seales

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It wasn't that there weren't menfolk in my grandmother's stories. There were lots of them but they died young or were drifters and dreamers who disappeared or turned to drink or succumbed to melancholia or slow mortal diseases. The women, on the other hand, lived a long time and were full of spit and vinegar until the end.

Sue Hubbell

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If people are taught wrong, raised wrong, or haven't taken the Bible seriously enough, then they can go into academic error, emotional error, psychological error.

Tony Evans

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My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

Roger Bannister

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I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

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I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

Don Henley

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You just have to keep at it and budget yourself; be prudent. It's art, so you really don't go into it to make a zillion dollars, but there's definitely bills to pay, and I want everyone in the band to have a salary and whatever they need.

Cindy Wilson

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It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

Claudette Colbert

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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

Brent Scowcroft

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Spreading my love and extending my hand is what life's all about.

Antonio Brown

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It's very important for females to feel empowered. It took me a long time to find that inside me.

Anne-Marie

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