Bottomley V Quotes

#1. I think new life is the most exciting thing and I absolutely have so much respect for my friends and family that have gone and done it because it seems like the hardest job in the world. So, who knows - maybe one day I might try it myself. But I completely salute anyone who does.

Christine Bottomley

#2. Smoking is a dying habit.

Virginia Bottomley

#3. Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

John Henrik Clarke

#4. But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

Betsy Lerner

#5. She wished she could give Isabel a shield, like the ones riot police held, to protect her from male attention, that feeling of being scored each time you walked down a street, the demeaning comments yelled out of cars, that casual sweep of the eyes.

Liane Moriarty

#6. An epigram a day keeps the mind from going astray.

Dr Steven Bottomley

#7. Wine is the nectar of the Gods, the spirit of the Earth, and the Devil the day after the night before.

Dr Steven Bottomley

#8. A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now

Ramana Maharshi

#9. CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. A portrait of a muscular grey-haired man with a grim, almost demented gaze and the sort of moustache that could beat you in an arm-wrestling contest.

Ned Beauman

#11. The stage of mental comfort to which they had arrived at this hour was one wherein their souls expanded beyond their skins, and spread their personalities warmly through the room.

Thomas Hardy

#12. Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

William Faulkner

#13. Science is a way of looking at the world without the rose-coloured glasses of ignorance!

Dr Steven Bottomley

#14. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

Horatio Bottomley

#15. I was lucky, I got offered places and have had some good opportunities. But it is hard work. I suppose I am a bit of a geek when it comes to acting and doing my work. But I was never really nerdy at school, more slightly naughty, so this is my time to be nerdy.

Christine Bottomley

#16. As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our dead heroes will have won immortality. Civilisation will have gained new vitality. Humanity will have entered upon a richer heritage.

Horatio Bottomley

#17. But to admire a strong person
and to live under that strong person's thumb are
two different things.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. Suicide is a real threat to health.

Virginia Bottomley

#19. This mark men and women set on pleasure and pain, Prendick, is the mark of the beast upon them, the mark of the beast from which they came. Pain! Pain and pleasure - they are for us, only so long as we wriggle in the dust ...

H.G.Wells

#20. I do find that if I go out for a meal I can be listening to a few conversations at once all around me. It can drive my partner bonkers a little bit. But it's about being able to tell a lot of very different stories as well as you can and I do genuinely love what I do.

Christine Bottomley

#21. The boy listened to the sound of her voice and thought it to be more beautiful than the sound of the wind in the date palms.

Paulo Coelho

#22. Reflective listening is where you yell into a canyon and wait for the echo!

Dr Steven Bottomley

#23. Anybody in my job steers a tightrope between being popular and being principled.

Virginia Bottomley

#24. I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.

Julius Erving

#25. Indeed, there were times when it was quite worrying that after hitting a certain age, you wouldn't hear from a lot of actresses anymore. But that's when women hit their stride and get a lot more interesting. You see that in roles for males but it's slowly getting better for women too.

Christine Bottomley

#26. I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen.

Christine Bottomley

#27. I hit the ball as hard as I can. If I can find it, I hit it again.

John Daly

#28. I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.

G-Eazy

#29. Is in vitro fertilization where you have all the fun in a glass house?

Dr Steven Bottomley