Nos Anglais Quotes

#1. Every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.

Hilary Mantel

#2. When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

Les Brown

#3. I should add that there are undoubtedly charming Englishmen; I have often met them. But they are rarely our fellow-guests at hotels.

Guy De Maupassant

#4. In a second, fate can send a bus crashing into you and change your life---or not.

Alison Wright

#5. Hell is just a frame of mind.

Christopher Marlowe

#6. I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.

Francois Hollande

#7. No one mentioned his(Bailey's) absence as if things were as they should be and always were.

Maya Angelou

#8. I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Chinua Achebe

#9. I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

David Hyde Pierce

#10. Everyone felt comfortable with these guys and what their vision was, and when they said they want to keep the staff intact, that was very encouraging.

Michael Nutter

#11. A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only faith War had was in cold steel and hot blood.

Jackie Morse Kessler