We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don't think it was decided at that meeting. The trouble is, as soon as you've chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of. It's like going to a place that you've never been to before - you've got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!
There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle.
Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.
I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.
Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.