Famous Ustinov Quotes

#1. Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#2. The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.

Franz Boas

#3. Yet had Fleming not possessed immense knowledge and an unremitting gift of observation he might not have observed the effect of the hyssop mould. 'Fortune,' remarked Pasteur, 'favors the prepared mind.

Andre Maurois

#4. The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. His shadow slipped over hers again, and she could almost feel his eyes studying her. "You're different," his voice whispered. "I can't decide if that's a good thing."
'It is', she transmitted, surprised at how much she wanted him to believe her.
He walked away without another word.

Shannon Messenger

#6. Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time. Claire

Rachel Caine

#7. Be sure to leave your underpants with someone you can trust.

Jethro Tull

#8. Pursue your goals with great passion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I've got four piercings in my left, so we've dubbed my right one the 'period drama ear.' I have to be filmed from that side when I do emotional close-ups in 'Downton.'

Jessica Brown Findlay

#10. One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Jerome Bruner

#11. Sad day, my loves, a proper tragedy. But when the milk's gone bad you might as well look forward to cheese, hmm?

Scott Lynch

#12. The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

David Mamet

#13. I can write about all of these bizarre and funny characters in my book, "Diggin' Elroy," because I know them better than anyone else. I have a little bit of all of them in me.

Walt Griffin

#14. I'm what I need to be at any moment to stay above the ground but below the radar. The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is 'I'm full of shit.

John Green