Top 100 Quotes About Sewell
#1. Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed him "Granny" Lee or "The King Of Spades," because he insisted that his men dig trenches on Sewell Mountain.
Clint Johnson
#2. 'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.
Scott Turow
#3. Alex pushed open the door to Sewell Hall and rushed inside, breathing heavily and wishing she hadn't worn her corset stays quite so tight this morning. "Vanity be damned," she huffed to herself. "Loveliness will do me no good with Blackmoor if I drop dead from lack of air before he sees me.
Sarah MacLean
#4. All very well for you religious chaps to talk so," said Larry, "but I'll turn a shilling when I can. I don't believe in religion,for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.
Anna Sewell
#5. Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.
Brian Sewell
#6. Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is ...
Anna Sewell
#7. The Hiltons know how to put on a good wedding, that's all I can say.
Conrad Sewell
#8. 'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous.
Rufus Sewell
#9. Plowboy, Dick, who sometimes came into our field to pluck blackberries from
Anna Sewell
#10. I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills.
Terri Sewell
#11. Well, thing is, after they cancelled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that case, it was not my choice. After I've done something that I'm really proud of and I think changes the way I'm perceived, the immediate reaction is: nothing.
Rufus Sewell
#12. Nothing says "you're a loser" more than owning a motivational poster about being a winner.
Justin Sewell
#13. When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
Rufus Sewell
#15. My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.
Anna Sewell
#16. steadier, pleasanter, honester, smarter young fellow I never had in this stable. I can trust his word and I can trust his work;
Anna Sewell
#17. You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.
Justin Sewell
#18. Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.
Anna Sewell
#19. Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson.
Anna Sewell
#20. I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.
Rufus Sewell
#21. There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their religion, but
if it does not teach them to be good
and kind to man and beast,
it is all a sham.
Anna Sewell
#22. I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.
Rufus Sewell
#23. When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteor hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteorite.
Justin Sewell
#24. Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.
Conrad Sewell
#25. If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
#26. I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people - Michael Jackson or whoever. People started to notice I could hold a tone. The bug was always there.
Conrad Sewell
#27. Was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees,
Anna Sewell
#28. I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
Rufus Sewell
#29. This horse has got a good master, and he deserves it.
Anna Sewell
#30. CONSULTING: If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
Justin Sewell
#31. Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.
Anna Sewell
#32. My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.
Rufus Sewell
#33. I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.
Rufus Sewell
#34. I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
Rufus Sewell
#35. Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.
Brian Sewell
#36. If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow.
Anna Sewell
#37. I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
Rufus Sewell
#39. The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
George Sewell
#40. I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.
Rufus Sewell
#41. It is good people who make good places.
Anna Sewell
#42. I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.
Anna Sewell
#44. If you in the morning
Throw minutes away,
You can't pick them up
In the course of a day.
You may hurry and scurry,
And flurry and worry,
You've lost them forever,
Forever and aye.
Anna Sewell
#45. Doubt we were very foolish, but danger seemed to be all round, and there was nobody we knew to trust in, and all was strange and uncertain. The fresh air that had come in through the open door made it easier to breathe, but the rushing sound overhead grew louder, and as I looked
Anna Sewell
#46. The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.
Rufus Sewell
#47. Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.
Rufus Sewell
#49. I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less.
Terri Sewell
#50. People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
Rufus Sewell
#51. The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.
Anna Sewell
#52. I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.
Rufus Sewell
#53. The only wonder was that he should be in an under situation and not in the place of a head coachman like York;
Anna Sewell
#54. As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.
Rufus Sewell
#55. Head, pricked his ears, and said, "There are the hounds!" and
Anna Sewell
#56. My grandfather was like Australia's Tom Jones.
Conrad Sewell
#58. I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.
Rufus Sewell
#59. I think videos are really hard. I'm yet to be happy with a video. It's very weird watching yourself on camera, which I guess I'm going to have to get used to. I love the thought of being in them, but it's one thing to say that and another to actually do it.
Conrad Sewell
#60. Very soon the train came puffing up into the station; then two or three minutes, and the doors were slammed to, the guard whistled, and the train glided away, leaving behind it only clouds of white smoke and some very heavy hearts.
Anna Sewell
#61. I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.
Brian Sewell
#62. I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.
Conrad Sewell
#63. Traveling a lot and touring, you're in and out of hotels, and you don't have any comforts around.
Conrad Sewell
#64. I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.
Rufus Sewell
#65. We become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell
#66. We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell
#67. I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.
Rufus Sewell
#68. I had never heard that before; and so poor Rob Roy who was killed at that hunt was my brother! I did not wonder that my mother was so troubled. It seems that horses have no relations; at least they never know each other after they are sold.
Anna Sewell
#69. TEAMWORK: A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
Justin Sewell
#70. What right had they to make me suffer like that?
Anna Sewell
#71. For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.
Rufus Sewell
#72. Once we played for the Princess of Monaco in Paris. We were the biggest ducks ever, wearing rented tuxedos. We trashed the party, took a bunch of girls and champagne in limos underneath the Eiffel Tower, and set up an acoustic show. It was like a Hilary Duff movie.
Conrad Sewell
#73. Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.
Rufus Sewell
#74. You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.
Conrad Sewell
#75. Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.
Rufus Sewell
#77. But he had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.
Anna Sewell
#78. Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, 'Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.
Anna Sewell
#79. We could have done a better job explaining what was in the Affordable Care Act, but when you talk to people and you don't label it, people get really excited about what's in it. It is going to make a big difference for people.
Terri Sewell
#80. There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.
Justin Sewell
#81. If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.
Anna Sewell
#82. Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.
Rufus Sewell
#83. Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.
Rufus Sewell
#85. It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.
Rufus Sewell
#86. I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life.
Marilyn Sewell
#87. I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.
Rufus Sewell
#88. I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.
Rufus Sewell
#89. I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.
Rufus Sewell
#90. It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.
Rufus Sewell
#91. I think that one thing I have learned as a freshman is that it is really important to collaborate.
Terri Sewell
#92. Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back.
Rufus Sewell
#93. A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's ... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell
#94. I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.
Rufus Sewell
#95. We shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.
Anna Sewell
#96. I don't think I'll ever be a person who likes to work out.
Conrad Sewell
#97. Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
George Sewell
#98. At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.
Rufus Sewell
#99. A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.
Rufus Sewell
#100. I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.
Terri Sewell
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