A. N. Wilson Quotes

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

A. N. Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 27, 1950

Topics

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A winning effort begins with preparation.

Joe Gibbs

EffortPreparationWinningBegins

The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.

Meir Kahane

ComfortWillFirstStageTurnOur

Indian films are like our food or our sense of dress or our languages: there's a great variety, and it changes every 100 miles, but there is something in common, a national Indian essence, that binds them all together.

Amitabh Bachchan

GreatFoodTogetherDressChanges

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

DopeWorstCharacteristicsMiser

Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the 'Guardian' carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.

Robert Winston

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Law enforcement officials have been candid in identifying ways officers could have handled the situation in Ferguson better, and I trust those recommendations will be helpful as we continue to count on them to protect us.

Roy Blunt

TrustLawLaw EnforcementCandid

I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.

Deana Carter

LifeSongMy LifeKindGoingSure

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

LoveHeartBeautifulFarmCountry

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.

Anne Stevenson

HopeGreatSimpleLanguageEnjoy

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

Thomas Francis Meagher

MeFeelingGuiltyTrueCrimeJury

I hope that people will realize that the struggle to make a life better with a sibling is worth it.

Marie Brenner

LifeHopeStrugglePeopleBetter

I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility.

Mark Williams

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