Top 36 Shawcross Quotes
#1. I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model.
Christie Brinkley
#2. Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them.
William Shawcross
#3. The other day I made an epigram. I said, Anni's beauty is only sin-deep. I hope that's original? Is it? Please laugh.
Christopher Isherwood
#4. At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time.
Nicola Sturgeon
#5. Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don't fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured like that, it's not acceptable.
Arsene Wenger
#6. They all chose Indian names for themselves. Teddy was Little Fox ("Naturally," Ursula said). Nancy was Little Wolf ("Honiahaka" in Cheyenne, Mrs. Shawcross said. She had a book she referred to). Mrs. Shawcross herself was Great White Eagle ("Oh, for heaven's sake," Sylvie said, "talk about hubris").
Kate Atkinson
#7. Because the thing is, you don't fall in love with your best friends girl
Jay McLean
#8. Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.
William Shawcross
#9. We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.
Ryan Shawcross
#11. I've lived with myself for a very long time, so I'm aware of what I look like. I'm under no false pretense that I'm a stunner, so if somebody comes up and says something about my physical appearance, it's okay.
Timothy Simons
#12. Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
Hartley William Shawcross
#13. If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.
Barbara Corcoran
#14. Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.
William Shawcross
#15. The members of the circle ... [were] performing a peculiar caper based on Mrs. Shawcross's fancy of what a Saxon dance might have seemed like. ("Did Saxons dance?" Pamela asked. "You never think of them dancing.")
Kate Atkinson
#16. There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
Hartley William Shawcross
#17. I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.
Ryan Shawcross
#19. I took the right leg of that woman's body, from the knee to the hip took the fat off and ate it while he stared at the other girl. When I bit into it she just urinated right there.
Arthur Shawcross
#20. If trustees feel it is in their charity's interest to pay high salaries to attract talented people, then they should have the courage of their conviction and explain their decisions publicly.
William Shawcross
#21. Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.
Ryan Shawcross
#22. All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.
Ryan Shawcross
#23. It was all so goddamn good. And so goddamn breakable.
Jennifer Rush
#24. You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.
William Shawcross
#26. Charities should not become the junior partner in the welfare state; whether or not they provide services funded by Government or, indeed, receive grants from Government, they must remain independent and focused on their mission.
William Shawcross
#27. Halloween's eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That's great, just what teenagers need
another excuse to be jerks.
Craig Ferguson
#28. A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
Mavis Gallant
#30. She was giving me oral sex, and she got carried away ... So I choked her.
Arthur Shawcross
#31. The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.
William Shawcross
#32. Where tree leaves dance... one shall find flames... the fire's shadow will illuminate the village... and once again tree leaves shall bud anew.
Masashi Kishimoto
#33. Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
Jason Alexander
#34. A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved she was.
William Shawcross
#36. I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.
Helena Bonham Carter
