Quotes About The Domesday Book

#1. I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

Laurence Olivier

#2. The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar effect was produced by the inquests of 1166 and 1170, before alluded to. Even to this day, the word 'inquisitorial' bears the burden of historical unpopularity.

Edward Jenks

#3. I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

Steve Kanaly

#4. I like giving music-themed gifts. I've given a couple of music documentaries to boys. Especially if they don't have the same taste as me, I try to infiltrate their mind with my favourite bands.

Bella Heathcote

#5. The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

Giambattista Vico

#6. I crossed my arms on my stomach. A psychologist would have said I was closed off, uncommunicative. Fuck them.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light.

Lao-Tzu

#8. Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

Craig Brown

#9. Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#10. Leave it all on the track. Live with no regrets. Spend less time looking in life's rearview mirror and more time looking ahead at the road stretched before us and the opportunities that await. Why not, indeed?

Mike Dellosso

#11. I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin

Rachel Caine

#12. When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.'

James Buchan

#13. I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

Dale Carnegie

#14. Swallowing your words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterward.

Kate Lloyd

#15. If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

Derrick Jensen