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Graham Greene Quotes

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: british
Birth: October 2, 1904 - April 3, 1991

Topics

World Innocence Meaning Dumb Lost

'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.

Mother Experience Words Strong Leap

When I was little... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so - she was so elegant.

Thought She Elegant Little Saw Just

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

Hope Moving On Moving Prison Two

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

Life Great Time Think Thought Never

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

City Problems Problem Three Nothing

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

Life Me Look Now Silent Will

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

Attitude Think Strange Big Deal

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

Alone Tough Think Party Country

Canada was for me very much Sweden, you know? Very much open people, that they read books, they go see films. I felt at home in Canada. And also, you speak French.

Michael Nyqvist

Home People Me Speak You Canada

Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

Jonathan Winters

Moon Airplane Think Remember Hands

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

Think Play First Two Forty Plastic

I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.

Susan B. Anthony

Life I Am My Life Now Want Act

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