Walter Bagehot Quotes

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Walter Bagehot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 3, 1826 - March 24, 1877

Topics

MenWordsThoughtsOpinionSpeakUs

People are interested in writing, and often there's an unjustifiable sense of people to believe my talking to them for the book is going to accord them any sort of fame. Which it won't. At the same time, they can be more circumspect if they know they're on the record.

Jesse Kellerman

TimePeopleWritingBookBelieve

If I can do a scene in one shot, it's in one shot. Most of my shots are pretty long. I think with 'Looking,' what we have in the first minute is a whole episode of a traditional TV show. I like to let things breathe; I like to let things have a certain tone.

Andrew Haigh

LookingThinkLongI CanFirstTone

In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

Robert Hass

MyselfDayPainYellowSpringEarly

I didn't even know what a mark was, but I fell in love with acting.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

LoveActingKnowMarkEvenFell

I have been stared at my whole life because of my height.

Meredith Eaton

LifeHeightBecauseWholeBeen

There is a scene in one comic from the '60s-'70s where Batman finds a film, a newsreel film, of his father. This newsreel film is from the '50s, and his father has come to this costume ball in a Zorro costume, which strangely enough looks a lot like a Batman suit in the footage.

Tracy Hickman

FatherEnoughLooksBallSuitFilm

We have to have each other's back. That's just football. That's how it's been since we were younger. Before you learn technique and scheme when you're a little kid, you're out there scrapping.

Mike Daniels

FootballLearnYouBackKidOut

I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.

Julia Cameron

GreatPeopleWritingBookBelieve

Australia is the most isolated continent.

Jared Diamond

AustraliaMostContinentIsolated

As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.

Clayton M. Christensen

CharacterArchitectureWaveNewWill

At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre.

Antony Beevor

BeginningWarRedFightingArmy

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Alison Bechdel

AgeCharacterHairSomeoneYouGray

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