Chronique Isabelle Quotes & Sayings

The (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) stories were great, for one. The thing that makes him a remarkable character is how he can withstand all of these different interpretations and different styles and, that's what makes a classic character a classic character; they keep coming back and you see them in a new way every time. — Laura Linney

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare. — Alan Ayckbourn

When we are strongest- who draws back?
Most merry- who falls down laughing?
When we are very bad,- what can they do to us? — Arthur Rimbaud

Our little son is surely with the Lord God now, singing with the angels. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen? — Karen Allen

In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute. — Robert Payne

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union. — Michael Leunig

I've been offered a peerage already, and turned it down. — Richard Desmond