"Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his feet to the ground. It was no panic terror - indeed he felt wonderfully at peace and happy - but it was an awe that smote and held him and, without seeing, he knew it could only mean that some august presence was very, very near."

-- Kenneth Grahame

#Fall Quotes #Mean Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.”

Source : The Journalist and the Murderer pt. 1 (1990)
“We disbanded our intelligence and then found we needed it. Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face.”
“MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.”
“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
“I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealing didoes. I came close to knocking him on his ass.”
“I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.”

Source : In R. Lehmann et al. Orion I (1945) p. 25
“My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.”

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