Top 18 Quotes About Miniver: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Miniver

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Jan Struther

#4. 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

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

Simone Weil

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#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. 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

#13. 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