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Nevil Shute Quotes

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: January 17, 1899 - January 12, 1960

Topics

Service Safety Nobody Pay Prepared

I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel.

More Image Off Marvel Trades Than

People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.

Funny Great I Am People Drive I Can

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

John Rhys-Davies

Good World Think Lost Special Been

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Determination Discipline Me Ice Fame

Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D.C., where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses.

People Control Opinion Choices Think

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

People Loved Race Always Theme Act

My daughter told me, 'Daddy, if I don't make it, I don't want you to stop helping these other kids.' So that's where I've been able to go on. I tell people - and I really believe this - I didn't lose a daughter; I gained so many other kids.

Daughter People Me Believe You Lose

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

King Always Disobedience Expression

Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.

Change You Things Happen Go Will

The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never - I don't think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter.

Think Confident Television Never

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.

Great I Am Bad Singer Something

No matter how bleak the situation into which we have been thrown by the global economy, it does offer opportunities. Designers need only invent them.

Opportunities Situation Matter Need

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