Quotes
Authors
Brian Blessed
"I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela." --
Brian Blessed
#Men Quotes
#Serious Quotes
#Three Quotes
“Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.”
“The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.”
“We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.”
“Every old poem is sacred.”
“True success is when you reach back and bring somebody along with you.”
“The newer education put stress on culture ... Saturday mornings, the young were brushed and washed, forced into blue cheviot suits, and dragged to children's concerts to learn appreciation. They wriggled, squirmed, counted the light bulbs in the ceiling, dived under seats to gather ticket stubs, stampeded out at intermissions. The weakness of their bladders was astounding.”
“A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.”
“Fashion is what others give you, style is what you give yourself”