Tenner Quotes

#1. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Ernest Newman

#2. Support is really important to me. It's quite a responsibility when people are paying for tickets. I've spent ten years playing for free, now it's like, bloody hell people are spending a tenner and I want it to be a great show and I really don't subscribe to having a crap support band.

KT Tunstall

#3. before 1923 there was almost no lead in the atmosphere, and that since that time lead levels had climbed steadily and dangerously.

Bill Bryson

#4. You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
[Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]

Ovid

#5. Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Gustave Flaubert

#6. I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

Cat Deeley

#7. I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

Adam Green

#8. A thin watery sun laid its gunmetal shine on the country below.

Paulette Jiles

#9. Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

Edward Tenner

#10. Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.

Edward Tenner

#11. Of all the places you could go, I just thought you'd choose somewhere that has somebody that you know

Drake

#12. Reflect, old man! We have been pals for years. Your mother likes me."
"No, she doesn't."
"Well, anyway, we were at school together and you owe me a tenner."
"Oh, well," he said in a resigned sort of voice.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. But it's not healthy!" replied the Hag. "A mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?"
"You know, this isn't why we're here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever."
"Yeah," sighed the Maid, "but I bet a tenner I can make you cry in half a minute.

Kate Griffin

#14. Chaos happens. Let's make better use of it.

Edward Tenner

#15. If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Swami Sivananda

#16. One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

Edward Tenner

#17. When the zipper snaps open, Ben pauses, his breath hot in my ear. "Janelle Tenner," he whispers. "I fucking love you.

Elizabeth Norris

#18. The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors.

Edward Tenner