Charles Hawtrey Quotes & Sayings

It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after
they only want to look around and hope to see a book that will strike their fancy. And then, being bright enough not to trust the publisher's blurb, they will ask the book clerk the three questions: (1) What is it about? (2) Have you read it? (3) Was it any good? — Mary Ann Shaffer

The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus, — Jude Wanniski

There is no cure for narrowness of mind ... — Andre Norton

Not knowing who you are is a certain kind of hell. — Kelly Thompson

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created. — Audre Lorde

I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him. — Christopher Buckley

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet. — Peter Diamandis

Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire. — Emile M. Cioran

The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the main reason why the Rugby World Cup, the Pacific islands excepted, was so desperately white, the Springboks included. — Martin Jacques

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer. — Marcy Kaptur

Christians and Jews go after those who have access to raw materials but who prevent access to them. Oil is the best example. The US and its allies are constantly intervening in countries where they don't belong only to defend their prosperity. We aren't fighting because we are greedy and selfish, rather we are fighting for values and morals. — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living. — Fredrik Backman