Bolitho Quotes & Sayings

They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high. — Gregory Hines

It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers
men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton
have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy; for here, surely, is one of the outstanding murder mysteries of modern times
a case practically unique in the annals of latter-day crime. — S. S. Van Dine

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action. — William Bolitho

An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free. — William Bolitho

Adventure must start with running away from home. — William Bolitho

At home, I never plate. Things go in the middle of the table, and you serve yourself. In the restaurant, every day I plate things, but at home, I want to enjoy my company. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes. — William Bolitho

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution. — William Bolitho

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin. — William Bolitho

A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color — William Bolitho

Prejudice walking to and fro in flesh and blood is my horror, and, alas, a phenomenon so common; and people plume themselves so much upon their prejudices, as signs of decision of character and greatness of mind, nay, of true patriotism; and all the while they are simply the product of narrowness of intellect, and narrowness of heart. — Hector Bolitho

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day. — William Bolitho

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. — William Bolitho

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics. — William Bolitho

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social. — William Bolitho

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work. — Kristan Higgins

I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am. — Neneh Cherry

It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. — William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. — William Bolitho

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat. — Philippe Petit

Zeke slipped a hand under Jacqs and curled closer to him.
Tomorrow would come, but Jacqs lived in today, and this today was perfect. — Lyn Gala