Andrew Fletcher Quotes

#1. All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

Andrew Fletcher

#2. One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.

Andrew Fletcher

#3. ANDREW: But do you think there's a line? You know, where you discourage the next Charlie Parker from becoming Charlie Parker?
FLETCHER: No. Because the next Charlie Parker would never be discouraged.

Damien Chazelle

#4. Share your love, share your happiness; you will be rich and a great success.

Debasish Mridha

#5. That's the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away day after day. The thought of going away before they got up and coming back after they were in bed was intolerable.

Louise Fletcher

#6. The time he'd cheated on Syl, Syl had seen through him, broken off their engagement, and cheated on him with Charles, which had fried his ass possibly worse than any single other ass frying he'd ever had, in a life that, it recently seemed, was simply a series of escalating ass fries.

George Saunders

#7. Tragedy was a commodity like any other. it was meant to be consumed- individually and collectively.

Elif Shafak

#8. FLETCHER: What are--?
ANDREW: I need to talk to you.
FLETCHER: Now is not the time, I swear to God--
ANDREW: I can play that part, you know I can-- swear to God--
ANDREW: I can play that part, you know I can--
FLETCHER: I said NOT NOW!!! You want the part? Then...earn it.

Damien Chazelle

#9. Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

Judy Blume

#10. The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

David Miliband

#11. I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

Edward St. Aubyn

#12. If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi ... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.

Thomas Jefferson