Top 100 Geoffrey Quotes
#1. If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#2. I love hotel rooms, so I take pictures of the room and the way out and the lobby, the food and drink.
Geoffrey Zakarian
#4. There will be a solidity to their faith which is very dangerous to our designs and difficult to dissolve. There is a luminosity to it. Just one Christian of that type can dispel years worth of diabolical delusion.
Geoffrey Wood
#7. I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.
Geoffrey Zakarian
#8. There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.
Geoffrey Howe
#9. To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
#10. There is a risk of becoming linguistically schizophrenic. Because your brain is so fluent in both languages, it is fooled into thinking that the structure you have put together in the target language is correct merely because it is correct in the source language.
Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown
#11. In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#12. Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don't feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they're stuck right where they started: Guilty.
Geoffrey Wood
#13. I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
Geoffrey Boycott
#14. Drunkenness is the very sepulcher
Of man's wit and his discretion.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#16. Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.
Geoffrey West
#17. This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#18. 'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
Geoffrey Chaucer
#19. Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#20. The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
Geoffrey West
#21. Well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat
Eddie Mair
#22. You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
#24. Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.
Geoffrey Canada
#26. I always request a king-size bed, and if I can't, I try to work that out right after I land. I unpack immediately so the clothes don't get wrinkled. I go the gym. I adjust the temperature; I like the room kind of warm. And then turn on CNBC.
Geoffrey Zakarian
#28. They view repentance as the thing they have to do in order to earn forgiveness, therefore the more difficult they make it, the more credit they tally up.
Geoffrey Wood
#29. Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.
Geoffrey Boycott
#30. I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
#31. Bill Murray is a wonderful actor, and he's very funny, and I've seen him be serious and terrific.
Geoffrey Ward
#33. I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
Geoffrey Rush
#34. True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about "knowing God," they mean more than, "I understand what you're saying about God," but also, "It fits my experience of Him.
Geoffrey Wood
#36. There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the circle his mind has drawn, his trust evaporates.
Geoffrey Wood
#37. Undercook swordfish, and you get rubber. Overcook it, and you lose the fat and succulence.
Geoffrey Zakarian
#38. For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis;
Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#39. He who has learned not to intrude his emotions upon his fellows has also learned not to intrude them upon himself.
Geoffrey Household
#40. A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.
Geoffrey Beene
#41. Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.
Geoffrey Elton
#42. I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion ... I could be a colorist of spaceships.
Geoffrey Beene
#43. China's voice came through the phone. "Has the shark eaten him yet?"
"Not yet," Skulduggery muttered. "So what happens if I do it wrong?"
"Geoffrey gets eaten," China said. "Am I on loudspeaker?
Derek Landy
#44. Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#45. It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently.
Geoffrey Canada
#46. ["Emoticon" is] one of the worst words ever--it deserves to die horribly in a head-on crash with infotainment.
Geoffrey Nunberg
#47. The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
Geoffrey Beene
#48. I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
#49. But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#50. I say "illusion" of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing.
Geoffrey Wood
#53. Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#54. Who now would thrust enquiry on / Beyond necessity of desire?
Geoffrey Hill
#55. I've seen a disobedient client simply turn his attention toward The Adversary and ask "Are You still there?" and suddenly all was made well between them.
Geoffrey Wood
#56. Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza.
Geoffrey Zakarian
#57. While reaching up for manhood they tumble over a moral and ethical precipice and many can never scale their way back up.
Geoffrey Canada
#58. Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie..
Geoffrey Hill
#59. Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite;
Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage;
But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#62. They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themselves.
Geoffrey Wood
#63. Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.
Tom Hooper
#64. Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#65. Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.
Geoffrey Ballard
#66. The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.
Geoffrey Nunberg
#67. Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.'
Geoffrey Rush
#69. That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#72. The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.
Geoffrey Moore
#73. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to finish 24 tales before he suffered an insurmountable and permanent state of writer's block commonly known as death.
Jacopo Della Quercia
#74. The well-being of the British people and the health of our economy are far more important than any government's commitment to a particular strategy, but to change course now would be fatal to the whole counter-inflation strategy.
Geoffrey Howe
#76. Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let him out.
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
#77. You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books
Geoffrey Dutton
#79. Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation.
Geoffrey Wood
#80. The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.
Geoffrey Beene
#82. Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#84. What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve
it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#85. I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought I'd better start acting my age or find roles that are going to be interesting to me in the sexagenarian repertoire, because it's not what you do in your forties or fifties.
Geoffrey Rush
#86. An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.
Geoffrey Wolff
#87. Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.
Peter Ackroyd
#88. With addiction, a client's fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana - the fear of Fear itself.
Geoffrey Wood
#89. Evil is not good's absence but gravity's
everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains
inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.
Geoffrey Hill
#90. Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we can afford, their ancestors.
Geoffrey Miller
#91. Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional - the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.
Geoffrey Wood
#92. Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#93. If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues.
Geoffrey Wood
#94. As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But of course a backhoe can knock your head off. But you don't want to not develop a backhoe because it can knock your head off, that would be regarded as silly.
Geoffrey Hinton
#96. A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.
Geoffrey West
#97. The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
William Caxton
#99. I don't usually have time for TV. When I get home at night, I just want to fall asleep.
Geoffrey Zakarian
