"Touch and away, Jack?â€™ asked Stephen. â€˜Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?â€™ To do with our enterprise? To do with this voyage?â€™ Perhaps not quite directly."

-- Patrick O'Brian

#Important Quotes #Enquiry Quotes #Voyages Quotes

“I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.”
“I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.”
“When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.”
“I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.”
“Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But I've worn underwear every day of my life and the fact that I'm painted as this exhibitionist is a little annoying. It's become a meme, I guess. Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is. If I get mad at it I'll look like a douchebag. But it's silly.”
“Yes, I am a narcissist. The best, too.”

Source : Rob Kirkpatrick, Randy Howe 1001 Stupid Sports Quotes: Jaw-Dropping, Stupifying, and Amazing Expressions from the World's Best Athletes, Globe Pequot, ISBN 1599210126, p. 94., 2007.
“I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.”
“I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.”

Source : "Uma Thurman On Acting, Turning 40, And Ex-Husbands: “My Aim Is True”, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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