Top 100 Hewson Quotes
#1. I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.'
Eve Hewson
#2. Back then though, you had a few months of training, and then you were just thrown into it.
Eve Hewson
#3. Viral infections, such as mumps, rubella and meningitis, cause inflammation of the inner ear or auditory nerve, resulting in permanent damage.
David Hewson
#4. My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.
David Hewson
#5. Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it.
Eve Hewson
#6. Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.
David Hewson
#7. I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.
John Hewson
#8. It's funny because when I first met with Carmen, she said, "Have you ever thought about doing TV?" And I was like, "No, not really, but I'd audition for TV." And she said, "That's where the roles are for women now. That's where you can go and get a really great part."
Eve Hewson
#9. Old Filey lies around the Ravine, a glacial gash running down to Coble Landing. This is the fishing Filey of centuries past, with neat little terraced cottages and a cluster of attractive 18th century houses.
David Hewson
#10. I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.
David Hewson
#11. To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.
John Hewson
#12. I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.
John Hewson
#13. I think it's really important that people can look at this show and be offended by it. Hopefully, then people will understand that this is still very much a problem we need to solve in other parts of the world. At least we have antibiotics.
Eve Hewson
#14. I always wanted to go to Sundance.
Eve Hewson
#15. Torremolinos has no Jesus Gil, no pretty little old town, and no resident celebrities to sing its praises.
David Hewson
#16. The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.
David Hewson
#17. It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.
David Hewson
#18. What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.
David Hewson
#19. In Filey, you eat early to prepare for the highlight of the evening: social intercourse of a kind one thought relegated to Stanley Holloway monologues.
David Hewson
#20. The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.
David Hewson
#21. Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!"
Eve Hewson
#22. Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.
David Hewson
#23. Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough.
Ali Hewson
#24. To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.
John Hewson
#25. I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way.
Ali Hewson
#26. I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'
David Hewson
#27. I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.
David Hewson
#28. I think I always knew I was going to somehow be on a stage. I was quite an extrovert, as a child. And I did a lot of music, when I was younger, so I thought I was going to go into music, but I fell into acting, in a really weird way.
Eve Hewson
#29. There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea.
David Hewson
#30. The only person you resent is yourself.
John Hewson
#31. Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party.
John Hewson
#32. Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.
David Hewson
#33. Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting and fretting for one brief hour upon a stage, then heard no more. I'll weep an ocean in my heart, if the world would give me time. But not now.
David Hewson
#34. Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.
David Hewson
#35. Nobody strikes a medal for the Royal Military Canal campaign any more, but a pint in the back bar of the ancient Mermaid Inn, perched in front of one of the biggest and oldest inglenooks you're ever likely to see, is its own reward.
David Hewson
#36. Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?
David Hewson
#37. No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.
Eve Hewson
#38. In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.
David Hewson
#39. Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.
David Hewson
#40. If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.
David Hewson
#41. Edam and Gouda are genuine Dutch cheeses, but the real thing is a lot less bland than the varieties most of us experience in the U.K.
David Hewson
#42. If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.
David Hewson
#44. The list of Scarborough's rock credentials could go on forever.
David Hewson
#45. We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region.
John Hewson
#46. Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
David Hewson
#47. The path from Hythe leads, for a little while, along the line of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway, whose 15in-gauge steam trains run throughout the year from Hythe to Dungeness.
David Hewson
#48. Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side.
David Hewson
#49. I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I don't want to leave any darkness behind me.
Ali Hewson
#50. In the world of crime novels, the annual Audible Sounds of Crime awards are a pretty big deal, and I was thrilled to be shortlisted for my fifth novel in my bestselling Nic Costa series.
David Hewson
#51. The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail.
David Hewson
#52. Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch.
David Hewson
#53. Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like.
David Hewson
#54. In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.
Eve Hewson
#55. Historically, Macbeth is one of the greatest kings Scotland ever had. He was on the throne for 19 years, and he simply has this dreadful reputation because Shakespeare manipulated history for the benefit of James I, who was paying him to write the play to blacken Macbeth's name.
David Hewson
#56. And still you'll hesitate to tell him, won't you? Why? Because you're a woman? Is your destiny such a small thing then? To keep your legs open and your mouth shut?
David Hewson
#57. I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us.
John Hewson
#58. Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.
David Hewson
#59. People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.
Ali Hewson
#60. A nation's not a child, for God's sake ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.
David Hewson
#61. The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.
David Hewson
#62. Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city.
David Hewson
#63. The mission we are about is something that truly energises me. I feel that at Lockheed Martin we have the opportunity to make a difference ... supporting men and women fighting for our peace and freedom.
Marillyn Hewson
#64. Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.
David Hewson
#65. I'm not tied to any particular political line.
John Hewson
#66. I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
John Hewson
#67. Lympne Castle opens its doors to visitors during the summer only. It is privately owned, and more an interesting medieval manor than a castle.
David Hewson
#68. the average branch of WH Smith today does not seem progressive or cutting edge, but back in the 1980s they were a major and dynamic force on the High Street.
Andrew Hewson
#70. It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
John Hewson
#71. The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever.
David Hewson
#72. The best employees are those who bring real energy and initiative to the job. I like to know whether you're the kind of person who can set priorities, take initiative, and drive results right from the beginning.
Marillyn Hewson
#73. Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.
John Hewson
#74. There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.
Eve Hewson
#75. The antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.
David Hewson
#76. Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).
David Hewson
#77. After which, he visited the wife of that fool Wallace and spent midnight till dawn bouncing her from one end of the mattress to the other.
David Hewson
#78. That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.
Eve Hewson
#79. There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.
David Hewson
#80. We allow each other to pursue our goals. I wouldn't want to be married to someone who was not happy with what they were doing with their life and Bono wouldn't either.
Ali Hewson
#81. The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.
David Hewson
#82. I grew up with Frank Sinatra and it has taken me a long time to get to a place where I really enjoy [U2's] music.
Ali Hewson
#83. I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.
Eve Hewson
#84. Most visitors to Amsterdam will wander into the red-light district out of sheer curiosity. The narrow streets are mostly safe day and night - just don't try to take pictures of the women working in the windows.
David Hewson
#85. You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.
David Hewson
#86. There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.
David Hewson
#87. I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!
Eve Hewson
#88. She sits in a tub full to the brim, her chin submerged, her knees bent and revealed. She feels the water drift as her lungs expand and deflate with every breath. She images the space inside her it doesn't touch.
B.E. Hewson
#89. For most of the movies that I've done, we've shot in a contemporary house, in contemporary clothes, speaking in a contemporary way. So, I really enjoy that. It really helps.
Eve Hewson
#90. You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.
Ali Hewson
#91. I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'
David Hewson
#92. I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling.
David Hewson
#93. In London, the home of the quick deal is that outer ring of the seven circles of hell, Tottenham Court Road, where, as a rule, finding something with an advertised price is as likely as spotting a mermaid under Vauxhall Bridge.
David Hewson
#94. If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club.
Marillyn Hewson
#95. TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.
David Hewson
#96. You'll have an unbelievable sense of calm when you have a baby.
Ali Hewson
#97. To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.
David Hewson
#98. The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.
John Hewson
#99. We spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place?
David Hewson
#100. I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.
John Hewson
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