Alan Whicker Quotes

#1. Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.

Craig Brown

#2. Sometimes you learn your best lessons when you add up all your losses." She

Robyn Carr

#3. Medicine then must have been such an exciting, desperate, violent business; nowadays it is all pills and bureaucracy.

Julian Barnes

#4. An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.

Robert Pinsky

#5. That's when he'd run and run until he was nothing more than two feet and a pair of lungs, until he coughed blood and stank of sweat and forgot for an hour or two everything that he was and what he had to do and the people who'd get hurt along the way.

Carmen Amato

#6. I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

Matt Groening

#7. how can you underestimate the effects of your books, your words, all of it on all the blood drinkers in existence?

Anne Rice

#8. I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.

Joan Rivers

#9. We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

Charles R. Swindoll

#10. How could I relax when I had to welcome Christian into my home, the one who had wounded me deeper than anyone, the one who haunted my days and held me in my dreams?

A.L. Jackson

#11. I think I've only kissed a woman on screen only once or twice before in my whole career.

Delroy Lindo

#12. I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

Lasse Hallstrom

#13. Tautology and contradiction are, however, not senseless; they are part of the symbolism, in the same way that "0" is part of the symbolism of Arithmetic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#14. We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson