Hewer Quotes

#1. In 1903, Sir James Power, Lord Mayor of Dublin, was surprised to note on a transatlantic trip that the typical Irish immigrant in America was now "not merely a hewer of wood and a drawer of water." In fact, he remarked that they are "found occupying...respectable positions in society.

Rashers Tierney

#2. So potter with potter contendeth: the hewer of wood with the hewer of wood: the beggar is jealous of the beggar, the ministrel is jealous of the ministrel.

Alexander William Mair

#3. I feel 'Britannia High' is aimed at an older audience than 'High School Musical.' 'Britannia High' is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top.

Mitch Hewer

#4. The day I get too big for myself, my mum will slap me down!

Mitch Hewer

#5. I'm a wolf, I'm a woman, I'm a building hurricane. I'm whole-way sharp teeth, soul-sick wet claws. I

Elisabeth Hewer

#6. I had an amazing experience doing 'Skins.' It was the first acting I'd ever done in my entire life, so I had to learn on set for those two years. I had to keep my head screwed on and learn from the other cast.

Mitch Hewer

#7. If I tell my bones they're a cage
maybe they'll keep this
snarling heart contained.

Elisabeth Hewer

#8. Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

Charles Vest

#9. In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'

Robin Williams

#10. If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

Andre Agassi

#11. You're a defiant act of creation. You're a whole solar system pretending to be a person.

Elisabeth Hewer

#12. Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.

Michael Josephson

#13. When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you.

James Frey

#14. Look to your kingdoms -
I am coming for them all.

Elisabeth Hewer

#15. She was desperate,
she was deathless. I'd have followed her
anywhere she asked of me. I'd have
thrown myself to the wild for her.

Elisabeth Hewer

#16. You're a defiant act
of creation.

Elisabeth Hewer

#17. There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

Edward Thorndike

#18. Other people make angels out of boys like you.

But I? Choked-up lungs and erratic flight; I
leave too fast to find the light.

Elisabeth Hewer

#19. ...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must confess, the location taught me more about human nature and justice than could be learned from the professors' lectures.

Rohinton Mistry

#20. It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

James Levine

#21. 'Britannia High' is this new, edgy series which follows the lives of seven kids, their friendships, and the troubles they go through at stage school.

Mitch Hewer

#22. I want to be eaten alive. I want

to feel wanted.

Elisabeth Hewer

#23. I'd love to be able to do a really good English movie.

Mitch Hewer

#24. You taste like metal & blood,
kiss like a man's last gunshot.
I could find religion in your face.
Build a church in the palms of your hands.

Elisabeth Hewer

#25. Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental capacity.

Emma Paul

#26. There's so much world and sea and salt and
what I want to know is how much does it frighten you?
How much does it make you shake?

Elisabeth Hewer

#27. All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

Bruce Cockburn

#28. i dream nights and
girls like tigers,
claws and teeth on both.

Elisabeth Hewer

#29. I've tapdanced since I was 11 years old. I always wanted to be a tapdancer, and that's all I ever wanted to be.

Mitch Hewer

#30. The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.

Jordana Spiro

#31. You can't build a life
on another human being. We're foundations
of sand. We're Atlas buckling under the sky.

Elisabeth Hewer