Terry Wogan Quotes

My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my exams and thought, 'I don't really want to do a degree.' I did philosophy with the Jesuits for about a year, and then I joined a bank. While I was there, I saw an ad in an Irish paper for radio announcers.

Terry Wogan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: entertainer
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: August 3, 1938 - January 31, 2016

Topics

BestMoneyParentsMeThoughtYear

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

Jerry Saltz

FoodMemoryThinkingKnowingSecret

I always think about Faulkner, and I would argue that there can be a difference between the way that characters express themselves internally and externally.

Jesmyn Ward

ThinkWayDifferenceAlwaysArgue

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

PoliticsManSearchPhilosophyMoral

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

Maureen O'Hara

WomenI AmLikeManyPlayedAm

I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.

Jeff Daniels

LookResumeMy OwnDogsOwnGuy

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

Stephen Sondheim

WantWriteScoreShowWholeCast

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

Roland Joffe

GoodPerformanceRightJustMovie

Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.

Mike Rogers

GovernmentMoreNeedBigAnyProven

It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

Jonathan Haidt

ExperiencePersonalityTravelIdeas

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

Donella Meadows

WisdomHonestyFreedomHumility

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.

Dorothea Dix

GodHeartSoulWorldActionEnjoy

I'm exceptionally open with my own parents, and they're exceptionally open with me.

Claire Danes

ParentsMeMy OwnOpenOwn

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