Ealing Quotes

#1. When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.

Ewan McGregor

#2. I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

Nigel Kneale

#3. I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

Freddie Mercury

#4. There are so many ways to do research - even watching old Ealing comedies, watching people getting on and off buses in London, looking at household interiors.

Sara Sheridan

#5. she had always considered that, far from the world of Ealing and its county councillors who over-ate and neighed like stallions, there were bright colonies of beings, chaste, beautiful in thought, altruist and circumspect. And, till that moment, she had imagined

Ford Madox Ford

#6. This was a favourite dress, one of Sally Parker's, the last almost she ever made, alas, for Sally had now retired, living at Ealing, and if ever I have a moment, thought Clarissa (but never would she have a moment any more), I shall go and see her at Ealing.

Virginia Woolf

#7. I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.

Sarah Sutton

#8. It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.

Marjorie Hillis

#9. Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

Edward James Olmos

#10. It was easier to triumph in violence that it was to make a new order.

Timothy Snyder

#11. The terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.

Leon Panetta

#12. Anger is a big part of that formula, for passion is anger and love combined.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#13. A poem is no place for an idea.

E.W. Howe

#14. Fear in the biblical sense ... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.

Edward T. Welch

#15. We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.

Rosie O'Donnell

#16. When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.

Eric Ripert

#17. I don't like people feeling like they've been cheated out of their money, and I too have been caught in the back of floor shows, only to inspect the backs of necks and the mudded sounds pushing though bodies.

Brian Chippendale