Dave Rowntree famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

  • I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  • He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.

  • There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

  • The aura of uninvincibility has gone, if there is such a word.

  • One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

  • I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

  • The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

  • There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.

  • I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.