Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Bryan Procter Quotes

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: November 21, 1787 - October 5, 1874

Topics

Life Beauty Art Dream Human Cast

In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.

Tennis Drop Different Grip Overhead

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

Robbie Williams

Life Good Great Time Best Influence

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.

Problems Want Washington FBI Big

For our teams that do great work, we have a tradition of giving Rolex watches. If you see all the key guys with their Rolexes, that's sort of our Medal of Honor if you do something big.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Work Great Key Honor Giving Watches

Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary school we were taught to 'duck-and-cover' for protection. But even as children hiding under wooden desks, we recognized the inadequacies of this strategy.

Children School War Growing Up Cold

If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture because big likes to buy from big. So I realized, wow, how we cook or whether we cook has a huge bearing on what kind of agriculture we're going to have.

Food Eating Agriculture Fast Kind

I refused to be filmed getting off a bus twice. The director said, 'I'm an award-winning director. Please do it', and I said, 'I never thought I'd say this, but I'm an award-winning actress with a bad leg, and if your film depends on seeing me get in and out of a bus, we're in trouble.'

Miriam Margolyes

Me Thought Seeing Bad Trouble Said

I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.

Jonny Greenwood

Remember Result You I Can Important

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

Funny Myself Sharp Got Get Loose

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

You Movies Hard Director Big Star

A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.

Christy Turlington

People Country Numbers HIV Greatest

Pope John Paul II was a man of peace, a friend of the Jewish nation... and worked for the historic reconciliation between the nations and for the renewal of diplomatic ties between Israel and the Vatican at the end of 1993.

Friend Peace Man End Nation Jewish

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Bryan Procter