Winston Churchill Quotes

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Winston Churchill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965

Topics

StrengthWindRiseAgainstHighest

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

Jim Coleman

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I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

John Cusack

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Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

Megan Smith

InnovationGreatPersonalHumanOut

My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet.

John Lithgow

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I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

John McGahern

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One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Robert Staughton Lynd

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There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.

John Sandford

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I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

Roger Michell

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I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

Russell T Davies

GoodHateSocietyWriteJustIdea

You need to be happy with or without an acting job.

Rory O'Malley

JobHappyBe HappyYouActingNeed

I saw 'The Shining' really young. I don't think it scarred me, but I had a paper route, and I delivered to some apartment buildings, and it made it a little scary to walk down those hallways.

Ron Livingston

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Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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