Craig Brown Quotes

Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.

Craig Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenHappyNextSitAwayOnly

Honestly, nothing tastes as good as feeling good.

Jinder Mahal

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So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

Simon Newcomb

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I don't think of myself as the champion too often, honestly.

Robert Whittaker

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My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped.

Ruth Rendell

MotherLookHouseGoStreetShe

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

Mary Baker Eddy

HomeEarthShouldSpotBoundary

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

Mitch Albom

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Bullies are just ignorant.

Josh Hutcherson

IgnorantJustBullies

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

Bob Woodward

DecisionsPoliticalYouPolicySee

I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical facts.

Shekhar Kapur

HistorySleepFactsHistoricalUsed

There is nothing that would prevent Fiat Chrysler from providing ride-sharing service to a wider community and using our dealer network for this.

Sergio Marchionne

CommunityServiceNothingDealerOur

My one ambition is to play a hero.

Sessue Hayakawa

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Someone asked me what are the secrets to my success, and I said 'There are three: Timing, timing, timing.'

Richard Rainwater

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