Quotes About Miniver

#1. Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.

James A. Michener

#2. Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.

Sade Andria Zabala

#3. To the British, Dunkirk symbolizes a generosity of spirit, a willingness to sacrifice for the common good. To Americans, it has come to mean Mrs. Miniver, little ships, The Snow Goose, escape by sea. To the French, it suggests bitter defeat; to the Germans, opportunity forever lost.

Walter Lord

#4. When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another.

Lauren Willig

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Peter Darman

#6. There is no shame in impulse.

Douglas Coupland

#7. I go through life watching the english language being raped before me face, like miniver cheevy, i was born too late.
and like miniver cheevy i cough and call it fate and go on drinking.

Helene Hanff

#8. A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

Coco Chanel

#9. When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion.

Rihanna

#10. The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours.

Maria Menounos

#11. I can't fight.
I was once run over by a car with a flat tire, being pushed by two guys.

Woody Allen

#12. Higher unemployment generally bodes well for franchising. People are looking for a new opportunity, and people who have jobs are a little less confident they'll always have a job.

Fred DeLuca

#13. Clem Miniver: She was a good cook, as good cooks go. And as good cooks go, she went.

Jan Struther

#14. A girl crush is different from being gay. A girl crush is like when one girl is so into another girl that it's almost sexual, but not quite. A girl crush is way creepier than being gay, which is not at all creepy and in fact is completely awesome, in case you were wondering.

Sara Benincasa

#15. You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

Brad Pitt

#16. It was more like a form of claustrophobia
a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's.

Jan Struther

#17. I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

Donald Trump

#18. Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Simone Weil