"I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon."

-- David Starkey

#Kings Quotes #Henry V Quotes #Modest Quotes

“Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...”
“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
“I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.”
“Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.”
“Everything begins with an idea.”
“There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.”
“A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.”

Source : FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Jan 06, 2014
“I don't like my movies. I prefer John Ford's movies. I've made some movies that are interesting, or that have some point, or are more or less beautiful. But I've never made anything big to me, from my point of view. "Big" like John Ford or someone of that kind. I say John Ford because he is my favorite director.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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