Alec Guinness George Smiley Quotes

#1. Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard, 20th Earl Of Arundel

#2. I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country.

Charlotte Casiraghi

#3. Life hurts. As long as it doesn't kill us, we weather it.

R.K. Lilley

#4. All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is.

Susan Choi

#5. They know too well the violent hypnosis of those who hope to possess them-- men who can smell the blood on the places where a woman is breaking.

Alana Massey

#6. The clump-and-thud of avalanching books suggested that someone must be using the weapon of knowledge in an unconventional fashion.

Dean Koontz

#7. Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

Christina Rossetti

#8. Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen.

Winston S. Churchill