George Atkinson Quotes

#1. The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#2. The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.

Luis Carlos Montalvan

#3. THE PREMIER COMMANDMENT. [Deut. 6:4, 5] Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.4 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Anonymous

#4. I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it. Me and my sister shared a bedroom, and every night I'd drive her mad with my version of 'George, Don't Do That' about people we knew at school.

Dorothy Atkinson

#5. An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

Duke Of Wellington

#6. When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

Steve Case

#7. Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

Bobby Jindal

#8. . . . the hardships and perils that eat around the edges of even the strongest loves.

Pat Conroy

#9. Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

James Carville

#10. I'd love to work with Rachel McAdams, because she's a great actress.

Emma Roberts

#11. There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script.

Simon Pegg

#12. For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

Dave Grohl

#13. Kenspeckle: Have you eaten?
Valkyrie: One of your assistants brought me a burger for breakfast
Kenspeckle: I meant, have you eaten sensibly?
Valkyrie: I was very sensible while I was eating the burger. Didn't miss my mouth once

Derek Landy

#14. [John Jarndyce] rubbed his head so constantly that not a single hair upon it ever rested in its right place

Charles Dickens

#15. I've learned a lot just being able to see things clearer.

Shy Glizzy

#16. Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

John Lennon