Langford Quotes

#1. It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

Steve Berry

#2. Lucille Biggers Langford and Florence Mabry Whiteside. As the

Charles Portis

#3. spin the rings above the speed of sound to establish the harmonic connection." Langford

Michael C. Grumley

#4. No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

John Alfred Langford

#5. Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

Michael Langford

#6. The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

John Alfred Langford

#7. I love Monet: his 'Water Lilies' would look great on my wall. But would I prefer to see money helping kids get better from cancer rather than spending it on a work of art for my own personal indulgence? Yes, I probably would.

Bonnie Langford

#8. I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.

Bonnie Langford

#9. Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

Bonnie Langford

#10. It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.

Bonnie Langford

#11. Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for the unloved, in God's name.

Joseph Langford

#12. I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be.

Bonnie Langford

#13. 'Dr Who' is an extraordinary association that I have because I didn't realise until I was in the show quite how worldwide it is and how popular and how dear it is to so many people's hearts.

Bonnie Langford

#14. The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.

John Alfred Langford

#15. You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch.

Sam Langford

#16. I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.

Bonnie Langford

#17. Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.

Bonnie Langford

#18. I used to hate my bottom because as a dancer, you're supposed to have nothing there.

Bonnie Langford

#19. As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?'

Bonnie Langford

#20. For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I've reached a stage where I think, 'I've got red curly hair, and it's actually really great.'

Bonnie Langford

#21. I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.

Bonnie Langford

#22. E need more love than we deserve ... has God not indeed shown us his greatest love precisely when we deserved it least from the tree of Eden to the tree of Calvary and beyond?

Joseph Langford

#23. I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.

Bonnie Langford

#24. I'm a deeply boring person in real life; I don't do any drinking and going out until four in the morning. I'll usually head straight home for a cup of tea.

Bonnie Langford

#25. The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

Bonnie Langford

#26. It is only when your awareness reaches the heart that great progress from your practice is possible.

Michael Langford

#27. I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.

Bonnie Langford

#28. None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is directed and how is it likely to be received.

Michael Langford

#29. If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a primary virtue out of exactitude and economy of meaning: this has replaced metrical skill as the first thing the poet tunes to.

Martin Langford

#30. Writing a check was easily done, and easily done with. It allows us to do "charity" while keeping at bay the inner tug that urges us to give more of ourselves and our time, rather than our possessions.

Joseph Langford

#31. I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't resist milk chocolate. I figure if you're going to do something naughty, make it really enjoyable.

Bonnie Langford

#32. I just have to express myself somehow, either through singing, dance or fitness. You get sick of it; you have days where you think you don't want to do it, but generally after I've done something, I feel better. That's why I do the exercise: to earn my bar of chocolate and cappuccino.

Bonnie Langford

#33. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

David Langford

#34. I go to the gym regularly, not just for the way I look but because it makes me less cranky, too.

Bonnie Langford