Lord Orville Quotes

#1. I felt a confusion unspeakable at again seeing him, from the recollection of the ridotto adventure: nor did my situation lessen it; for I was seated between Madame Duval and Sir Clement, who seemed as little as myself to desire Lord Orville's presence. Indeed,

Fanny Burney

#2. Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people!

Fanny Burney

#3. Lord Orville seemed by no means to think the Captain worthy an argument, upon a subject concerning which he had neither knowledge nor feeling.

Fanny Burney

#4. I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

William Beckett

#5. There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

Rupert Everett

#6. We were not supposed to know anything about our own bodies or to participate in decision-making about our own care.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#7. I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it.

Yogi Berra

#8. Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

Phyllis Bottome

#9. Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.

Billy Gardell

#10. And the honour you did me, no man could have been more sensible of; I am ignorant, therefore, how I have been so unfortunate as to forfeit it:-but, at present, all is changed! you fly me,-your averted eye shuns to meet mine, and you sedulously avoid my conversation.

Fanny Burney

#11. Next, the psychiatrist's report must demonstrate how the claimant relives the traumatic event in one of the four following ways: recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event;

John D. Roche

#12. Despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

Trinh T. Minh-ha

#13. Never drew a paycheck outside of baseball.

Don Zimmer