"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."

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Source : A Voyage Round My Father act 1 (1971)

John Mortimer

#Law Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #Nails Quotes

“I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.”
“Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.”
“All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.”
“You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.”
“My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.”
“You can't hold firewalls and intrusion detection systems accountable. You can only hold people accountable.”
“The easy glamour of the French Riviera in the late 1960s - inspired by Romy Schneider's character in La Piscine - mixed with garden elements. Blueprint, botanical, lattice, Queen Anne's lace and folly prints are paired with cleaner silhouettes and proportions in a fresh palette of green, white and coral.”

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