Quotes About Hampton Court

#1. I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.

Katharine Whitehorn

#2. I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.

Andrea Bocelli

#3. Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court's. Books ruled out lives. They were our demi-gods.

Nick Bantock

#4. When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

Jean Plaidy

#5. I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.

Rick Wakeman

#6. One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.

Albert Einstein

#7. Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

Alexander Pope

#8. I'm sorry, but I just don't believe in your ... religion,

Robin Sloan

#9. In a nutshell, the universe is 4% visible, 23% undetectable and 73% unimaginable. Welcome to the cosmos, full of mass you can measure but not manhandle, driven by a force you can infer but not explain.

Tim Radford

#10. I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

Christopher Hampton

#11. I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.

Jen Pollock Michel

#12. We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?

Thomas F. Wilson

#13. Sometimes you have to make a mess in order to clean up effectively.

Joy Marino

#14. Richard Collins had only taken weeks to destroy the little boy I'd known. He was this shell, okay? This empty shell, and I didn't know how to fix it. And then, Ox. Oh, and then there was you." She

T.J. Klune

#15. The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

Umberto Eco

#16. My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

Nicole Trunfio

#17. I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

Greg Mortenson

#18. 4. Date someone who'll wait to make sure you get inside before driving away.

Morgan Matson

#19. I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.

Clark Gable