Frederic Raphael Quotes

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Frederic Raphael

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 14, 1931

Topics

IdeasAmericaBadGoSaidBecome

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

John Adams

GovernmentBetterNowThreeYears

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

Robert Rauschenberg

VisionWorldPhotographyLooksBeen

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Jeanette Winterson

MarriageFreedomExcitementOutside

There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.

Michael Douglas

HollywoodWhoDaughtersSonsMade

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

Amy Hoggart

StartFeelDieGoForgetWell

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.

Sidney Altman

HopeEnjoyIntellectualWillAlways

If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.

Tori Spelling

TimeJobPartyHighTakeBeing

My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

Lois Capps

ChildrenFitnessExperienceEffort

Get your dog spayed or neutered. That's one of the first things that you should go and do.

China Anne McClain

DogYouGoFirstThingsGet

'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

GoodThinkLiteratureYouKindHere

I have no problems with failures, I'm afraid of failing within myself. At times when I know I did something wrong, I don't sleep that night. I'm scared of facing myself.

Anushka Shetty

MyselfSleepNightProblemsWrong

I love comedy, and I always wanted to go that way, but I felt so passionate about drama.

Annabelle Wallis

LoveComedyDramaGoWayPassionate

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