"... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them."

-- M. E. W. Sherwood

#People Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Regard Quotes

“When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.”
“Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.”
“Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?”

Source : Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.435
“Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.”
“In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.”
“I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.”
“You can't eat your friends and have them too”

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