Lotte Reiniger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

  • I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

  • I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

  • I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

  • Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

  • I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

  • Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.

  • My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.

  • In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

  • A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.