Top 24 4.50 From Paddington Quotes
#1. I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?
Elisha Cuthbert
#2. We have replaced the religious passions with Christian social virtues, and to talk of Man's triumph in terms of mercy, charity, or compassion is as senseless as expecting to find a Christ standing his turn of beers in a Paddington public house.
Bill Hopkins
#3. I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.
Stephen Fry
#5. Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.
Michael Bond
#7. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.
Peter Porter
#9. He next made arrangements to patent his bridge, and to construct at Rotherham the large model of it exhibited on Paddington Green, London.
Thomas Paine
#10. Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.
Colin Greenwood
#11. I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music.
Sufjan Stevens
#12. Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.
Ryan Miller
#13. I can think back to being four or five and not wanting to sit at the kids' table because I thought it was demeaning. I was this ridiculous little kid.
Lenny Abrahamson
#14. This book is my response to these developments: It is an appreciation of the flourishing that was the humanistic treasure of the modern era. It is also a plea to restore what has been lost and not to reject out of hand the modern values that inspired the broad prosperity of modern societies.
Edmund S. Phelps
#15. All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#16. Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself - so long as other people leave him alone.]
Arthur Schopenhauer
#17. I'm not a criminal," said Paddington, hotly. "I'm a bear!
Michael Bond
#18. My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
Michael Bond
#19. Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations
many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.
Susan Jane Gilman
#20. Post Horses and Conveyances of every description may be ordered by the electric telegraph to be in readiness on the arrival of a train, at either Paddington or Slough Station.
Tom Standage
#22. As I matured, I've always had the dream of one day either having my own clothing line or owning a fashion magazine. Most of my thesis' and projects in school were fashion and advertising based.
Ashley Purdy
#23. There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
Kazuo Ishiguro
#24. What differentiated us was our perception of our mutual reality, which made no difference.
Mie Hansson
