Dame Judi Dench Quotes & Sayings

The only way to do good soil science is to put a splitter and a lumper together in the soil pit and let them fight it out until they achieve something that they both know must be correct because neither of them feels satisfied. Left to her own devices, the lumper will dig for three hours, mark the horizons in ten minutes, and then go on her merry way. Left to his own devices, the splitter will dig a hole and crawl inside, never to be seen again. Thus splitters and lumpers are both productive only when forced into bickering collaboration, and though together they produce great maps, they rarely return from field trips still on speaking terms. Once — Hope Jahren

granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, — Anthony Doerr

I took after my father. — Patrick Swayze

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. — Upton Sinclair

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep. — Alan Cumming

I think it really makes a difference when you know the people that you're working with, when you develop a relationship. — Alexa Vega

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part! — Kelly Brook

I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad. — Jamie Lee Curtis

A slow-motion train wreck. For something to go this colossally wrong, everything must intersect and collide at the exact right, or in this case, wrong, moment. — Jenny Han

Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure. — Saint John Chrysostom

That had been an all-consuming love that had swept me up in a torrent of emotion that had been unimaginable until I'd experienced it. — Monica Alexander

In a dream, in a fairytale, nothing has to be explained, everything happens of its own accord. — Antonia Michaelis