Top 17 Royal Civil Quotes
#1. I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
Paul Weller
#2. (Spoken) words are considered an 'expense'. 'Speech' should not be spent away. Speech is wealth. It should be 'counted' upon spending. Does anyone ever give out money without counting it?
Dada Bhagwan
#3. Who would awaken the past?
It shines like a sunrise
And cuts like a fine blade.
Juliet Marillier
#5. Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
Erica Jong
#6. I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.
Anton Chekhov
#7. There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.
Nicholas Royle
#8. Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me.
LeVar Burton
#10. Discs and memory are far cheaper than annoying your customers.
Steve Huffman
#11. Oh God, he thought. "I'm sorry, I thought I heard you say to come in."
"I did."
"But you're only wearing a towel."
"What is it with you guys and towels? It's not like I'm naked.
J.L. Sheppard
#12. Peter was now standing very close - as if he wanted to comfort me - as if he knew how hurt I felt that Mrs Knowles had not asked me to play or to sing. And I did feel comforted. It was as if a tide of warmth was carrying me out of myself, inclining me to trust him and to conduct myself well.
Jennifer Paynter
#13. I believe that we learn by practice ... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.
Martha Graham
#14. The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.
George Orwell
#15. My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#16. If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
Carol Ann Duffy
#17. Sometimes a storm in your life is what will
blow you to the place you are longing to be.
Beth Moore