"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."

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Source : "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

Peter Ustinov

#Sarcastic Quotes #Future Quotes #Sarcasm Quotes

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
“The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.”
“Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.”
“Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.”
“I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.”
“Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.”

Source : Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1967). “Madly in all directions”
“I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.”
“Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.”

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