Dannie Quotes

#1. world comes to realize what I felt going up the hill, then there'll be a kind of right economy of living and of using and using up. Do you know what I mean?" Dannie had clenched his fist, but his eyes were bright as if he still laughed at himself. "Did you ever wear out a sweater

Patricia Highsmith

#2. With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.

Betsey Johnson

#3. When I was young, I used to tell my mum that she had to get me on the TV, but then modelling just sort of happened.

Alyssa Sutherland

#4. What you do behind someone's back you do in front of God's eyes.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

Dannie Abse

#6. On the set you just have to listen very closely, listen to everyone around you, absorb everything and try to be what they want you to be with the little bitty line that you'd have to say. If it was a good line, it would be such fun to say it with vigor.

Joan Leslie

#7. Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone

Dannie Abse

#8. When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

Jack Welch

#9. I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

Dannie Abse

#10. I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'

Damien Chazelle

#11. The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

Dannie Abse

#12. I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.

Dannie Abse

#13. Are all men in disguise except those crying?

Dannie Abse

#14. My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.

Heinrich Boll

#15. If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages ...

Isak Dinesen

#16. You have a beautiful classy mind
but I find you physically unattractive

Dannie Abse

#17. I'm on the verge of suicide, so what's murder?

Bushwick Bill

#18. Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

Francois Rabelais

#19. They hear you own up, and they learn to own up.

Bruce Willis

#20. Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.

Bridget Christie

#21. Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.

Michel De Montaigne