Dermody Burke Quotes

#1. We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

Ai Weiwei

#2. In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.

Philip Jenkins

#3. For much of the twentieth century, American visitors to Britain found that everything was the wrong temperature: cold, drafty rooms; warm beer and milk; rancid butter and sweating cheese.

Bee Wilson

#4. Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

Stefan Zweig

#5. Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

J. William Fulbright

#6. I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people.

Steve Guttenberg

#7. I floundered in my twenties. Though I wore a long scarf. And when I got to be thirty I got a job at Temple University in Philadelphia. I worked there for seven years, and I finally got fired, mostly for political reasons.

Gerald Stern

#8. I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.

Chris O'Donnell

#9. Don't stop me," said Bryony. "I'm pulling a weed. This is amazing.

T. Kingfisher