Pallisers Quotes

#1. An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC ... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

Andrew Davies

#2. In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

Dennis Lehane

#3. Mr. President, not only are you disastrous for the land, you are the man who must be held responsible for all the sins of the cowards, the cowards who were fooled into electing you as president.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#4. Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

Tom Peters

#5. I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.

Peter Capaldi

#6. And clay-caked clothes are so last year.

Maria V. Snyder

#7. I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth

Pope Benedict XVI

#8. I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.

Joan Rivers

#9. I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

Ned Beatty

#10. There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#11. My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds.

Miranda Lambert

#12. The act of wishing someone a good life even if it means us not being a part of it is the purest act of love. To know what is best for someone.

Monique Gold

#13. No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Max Beerbohm

#14. Sugar producers wanted to develop new markets and needs you didn't already have," Ms. Abbot says. "And so they invented the idea that every meal had to be followed by something sweet,

Anonymous