Cranford Quotes

#1. I worked with Judi Dench in Cranford. She's not at all starry, she's very easy and funny to be around, but I had such an enormous respect and regard for her before I met her that I was quite starstruck.

Martin Shaw

#2. I get mistaken for Amanda Holden; I've had that since I was 12. I get Carey Mulligan, too. We look quite similar, and she does 'Bleak House' and I do 'Cranford,' so people mix us up. I'm sure we'll play sisters at some point.

Kimberley Nixon

#3. What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?" And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent, "What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?

Elizabeth Gaskell

#4. I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango in Halifax,' you've had 'Call the Midwife' ... I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with.

Judy Parfitt

#5. I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I could be one of the actresses. When I saw 'Pride And Prejudice,' the one with Colin Firth, I just absolutely knew that was what I wanted to do, and for 'Cranford' to be my first job was poetic, really.

Kimberley Nixon

#6. The ladies of Cranford always dressed with chaste elegance and propriety ...

Elizabeth Gaskell

#7. My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

Jeanne Moreau

#8. So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. Here is to the men we've had. Some were good, some were bad. Some will run, some will follow. But it is up to us if we spit or swallow

Hilary Storm

#10. Andrew, you are aware that no one should be that shade of orange unless they're an Oompa-Loompa,right?

Lauren Dane

#11. The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?

Dan Millman

#12. As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.

J.R. Ward

#13. Outside, she knew, the sky was speckled with stars. How could anyone number them one by one, as the psalm said? There were too many. The sky was too big.

Lois Lowry

#14. See, Mary, how a good, innocent life makes friends all around. Confound it! I could make a good lesson out of it if I were a parson; but, as it is, I can't get a tail to my sentences - only I'm sure you feel what I want to say.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#15. At some point, when I was 14 or 15, the idea crossed my mind to become an actor ... I hadn't been to the theater much ... When I grew up, we had one TV channel, which was sufficient.

Tom Wlaschiha

#16. Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

Gerald Jampolsky

#17. A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

E.W. Howe

#18. It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have to make sense. It's just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights.

Isaac Asimov

#19. We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

Emanuel Cleaver

#20. He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

Beyonce Knowles

#21. As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.

Mario Batali

#22. If a poem is concentrated, a closed fist, then a novel is relaxed and expansive, an open hand: it has roads, detours, destinations; a heart line, a head line; morals and money come into it. Where the fist excludes and stuns, the open hand can touch and encompass a great deal in its travels.

Sylvia Plath