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“If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!”

Ifs Firsts Believe Said Would Be Animal Dog Cry Majors Noble London Britain Believe In Me Founders Towers Pope Vessel Great Britain Submarines Westminster

Author:Pierre Daninos

“I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate.”

Thinking Believe Said Government Waiting Optimistic Cents Central Banks Contractions

Author:Luis de Guindos

“Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.”

Heart Said Drama Affair Affairs Of The Heart

Author:Pam Gems

“My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.”

Want Heart Said Bigs Girl Break Saws Easier Paper Strings I Want You Auditions Ceremony Max Liz Strings Attached New Girl No Strings Attached

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.”

People Knows Said Different Games Changed Strings

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“I hope I'm going to act for the rest of my life. What scares me is that if I get a big head, my mum said she would take me out of the business instantly - and if you knew my mum, she would do it!”

Ifs Said Bigs Take Me Scare Mum Big Heads

Author:Daniel Logan

“It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.”

Said Shows Reading House Given White Events Research Presses Currents Eight Bones Newspapers White House Files Current Events

Author:June Lockhart

“My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.”

Said Helping Dad My Dad Conviction Producers

Author:Thomas Langmann

“When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.”

Men Needs Made Said Two Stories Shows Bigs Father Source Evolve Criminality

Author:Thomas Langmann

“Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.”

Firsts Said Country States Names Band Originals Edges Clubs Stuck Alabama

Author:Randy Owen

“There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.”

Said Eye Kids Wanted Hair Mom Blue My Mom Who I Am Ashamed Blue Eyes Luke

Author:Chaske Spencer

“When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.”

Children Said Clear Mom My Mom Discussion Negotiation

Author:Yul Vazquez

“I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.”

Writing Mean Said Artist Stuff Gone Singing Scripts Checks Video Collecting Writing Scripts

Author:Tionne Watkins

“So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.”

Said Shows America Sunset Jail Sail Show Me Columbus Fetters

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Writing Said Two Ends Creative Flower Drink Taste Advertising Brown Bottles Ads Creative Writing Slogans Spit Cigar Billboards

Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.”

Ifs Feels Wells Said Matter Damn Worthless Payment

Book:Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

Source: Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

“I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.”

World Way Want Said Bigs Wanted Certain Born Taste Limits Experience Rounds Core Innocence Layers Chunks Biting

Author:Abba Kovner

“Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?”

People Said Whole Election Like Me Manifestos

Author:Cynthia Payne

“I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.”

Mind Wells Persons Said Happiness Compensation Obese

Author:Pierre Dukan

“Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.”

People Wells Said Home Jobs Jesus Married Traveled Countryside Irritating Irritated Irritating People

Author:Kinky Friedman

“I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.”

Way Said Wanted Film Four Television Needed Finance Release Features Theatrical Jerusalem

Author:Bille August

“In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.”

People Said Hard Facts Film Turns Millions Tvs Tomorrow Offers Program Accounts Dollars Series Lots Of Money Packages Million Dollars Hard Things Bank Accounts

Author:Roone Arledge

“One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.”

People Ifs Want Years Said Millions Five Tvs Industry Dollars Five Years Contracts Million Dollars Do Whatever You Want

Author:Roone Arledge

“But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.”

Said Important Justice All Time

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.”

Said Different Use Race Happenings Drivers Vehicle Cabinets

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.”

People Said I Can Courses Streets June Up To You Referring Cleaver

Author:Barbara Billingsley

“The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.”

Said Building Members Built East All Time Triumph Architect Association Gallery

Author:J. Carter Brown

“My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.”

People Giving Kind Said Real Would Be Guy Dad Scripts Treatment Be Kind My Sister

Author:Rae Dawn Chong

“When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?”

Said Earth Mother Gay Married

Author:Stephen Daldry

“I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.”

People Ifs Want Said Done Moving Groups Husband Piano My Husband Things Done

Author:Eleanor Robson Belmont

“I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.”

People Needs Looks Said Government Perspective Officials Taxpayers Government Officials

Author:Scott McCallum

“I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.”

People Said Equal Tools Bangalore Equal Power

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.”

Thinking Said My Friends Nuts

Author:George Nethercutt

“I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!”

Knows Trying Said One Day Satisfied Tenors

Author:Jerome Richardson

“By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.”

People World Mean Said Care Equal Office Tools Doctors Take Care Indian Flats Hospitals Rays Office Work Bangalore Equal Power

Author:Thomas Friedman

“I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.”

People Thinking Said Ideas Real Matter Lasts Night Song Culture Girl Left Situation Subjects Albums Pops Pop Culture Subject Matter Duran Duran

Author:Nick Rhodes

“From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.”

People Said Sea Soldier British Boat They Said Israeli Yacht Commandos

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.”

Said Done Speak Crime Decided Like Me Kidnapping

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.”

Needs Said Remember Games Stars Magic Down And Need You Johnson Atlanta All Stars

Author:Jayson Williams

“I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I supposed to do?' and she said, 'Just wait, we're going inside to greet the light.' I liked that—this idea to go inside to find that light within, literally as well as figuratively.”

Wells Said Ideas Light House Waiting Sitting Meetings Grandmother My Grandmother Quaker Light Within

Author:James Turrell

“It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.”

“Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots”

Wells Has Beens Said Humanity Ethics Roots Fruit Finest Well Said

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.”

Men Should Said Artist Ambition Length Brushes Exceed

Author:Robert Breault

“Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. [...] Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.”

Thinking Want Giving Said Asks My Own Kings Serving Funeral Now And Then Luther Serving Others

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.”

Mind Wells May Said Body Together United Perfection Unions Ties Links Alliances Matrimony

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.”

Said Matter Lasts Suffering Song Evil One Thing Goes On Add Deeds Cowardice Threatened Doom Oath Treason Last Day

Book:The Silmarillion

Source: The Silmarillion

“Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.”

Ifs Knows Said Moments Dies United Passing Passings Instant Sincerity Florence Passing Moments

Author:William Butler Yeats

“For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.”

Said Lord Cutting Thee Missionary Thankfulness Cannibal Shank

Author:Yip Harburg

“Everyone felt comfortable with these guys and what their vision was, and when they said they want to keep the staff intact, that was very encouraging.”

Want Said Guy Felt Vision Comfortable Staff They Said

Author:Michael Nutter

“We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist 'has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.' This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified.”

Source: Title of liberty

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