George Mikes Quotes

The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.

George Mikes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 15, 1912 - August 30, 1987

Topics

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Obesity in children is growing out of control. A big part of this is economic. Fake foods are more affordable. It's enticing people to eat more because they think they're saving money when they're really just buying heart disease.

Jillian Michaels

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I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!

Megyn Price

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There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Celebrity farmer. Now there's a phrase that should be an oxymoron. There are farmers on both sides of my family, and I can attest that the overlap between the way farmers live, work and think, and celebrity culture, is exactly 0%.

John Lanchester

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In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.

Stella Young

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I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Rory Bremner

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My radio company has begun calling me 'the happy conservative warrior.'

Mike Gallagher

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I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

Liza Minnelli

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Folks are astounded that 'judge' isn't a synonym for 'humorless Luddite.'

Don Willett

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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Christy Mathewson

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If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

Brett Favre

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Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I'm going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit.

Brian O'Driscoll

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