Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart Quotes & Sayings

I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget. — Gabby Douglas

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals. — Mark Twain

Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'. — S. Janaki

The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat. — Peter Grimwade

We cannot turn away," Miss Woolf told her, "we must get on with our job and we must bear witness." What did that mean, Ursula wondered. "It means," Miss Woolf said, "that we must remember these people when we are safely in the future."
"And if we are killed?"
"Then others must remember us. — Kate Atkinson

A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The bemused Brigadier shook his head. You and that TARDIS. — Peter Grimwade

The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists. — Terrance Dicks

I'll just go at my own pace. Nice and easy. Here we go. There, see? I'm doing it. I'm running! Hey, look at me! I'm running! I'm-
Okay, well, that's enough of that. Whew. I mean, a girl could hyperventilate from doing that. And seriously, it's my first day. Don't want to overdo it. — Meg Cabot

No, sir. Now that his lordship is here, though, we can proceed. I'll tell Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart; he's to chair the proceeding. — Diana Gabaldon

If you need to find out who is your friend
among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict. — Toba Beta

Mawdryn stared at the Brigadier with such a look of pain and longing. For a moment the old soldier's mind went back thirty-five years to his first taste of action as a young lieutenant in Palestine, with his platoon badly shot up by terrorists, and he remembered the mangled conscript who screamed at the officer to take his rifle and kill him. — Peter Grimwade

From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard. — Sheldon Lee Glashow