Amalric Of Jerusalem Quotes

#1. There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

Aesop

#2. Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

Isaac Asimov

#3. There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

Georges Pompidou

#4. Pessimism is my default setting.

Miranda Hart

#5. Every grain of sand or silt carried out by the rivers and deposited at sea displaces a corresponding amount of water.

Rachel Carson

#6. I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Ishmael Reed

#7. A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.'

Peter O'Toole