Luka Redgrave Quotes & Sayings

I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is. — Martha Raye

I didn't want to do it ... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years! — Sally Kellerman

I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful. — Kerry Greenwood

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. — Malcolm X

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. — Joan Bauer

Maybe it's not about being popular, eh? Maybe it's enough to be right. — Simon Spurrier

When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too. — Shaun Tan

These men [medical doctors] plan ways of doubling their incomes and come to the public with the plea that they are sincerely interested in the health and welfare of our children and that they put over their income-increasing programs for the health of our babies and for the welfare of the school children. They are as cold-blooded as any class of criminals on the whole earth. Indeed, I know of no other class of criminals who live by crippling, maiming and killing babies and children. — Herbert M. Shelton

Honor without power was a useless decoration and power without honor was the simple flexing of muscle — H.J. Brues

To be conservative in politics is to take one's bearings not from the latest bright idea about how to make a better world, but by looking carefully at what the past reveals both about the kind of people we are and the problems that concern us. As we get older, we often become conservative in our habits, in our family practices, and in our recognition of the richness of our civilization, but this evolution of our character into a set of habits in no way blocks adventurousness. The old no less than the young may be found starting new enterprises, sailing around the world, and solving arcane academic questions. But it is in the ordinary business of life that we find our excitement, not in foolish collective dreams of political perfection. — Kenneth Minogue

In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm. — Fran Lebowitz

Flowers are fragile and ephemeral ... Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight ... and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai — Gosho Aoyama

It's like when you find out your lover has been unfaithful: in one horrible instant everything she was to you, the whole beautiful enchantment, falls away, and you see her as she really is - mortal, machinating, tethered like everyone else to a little patch of space and time. And the worst of it is that you knew all along. — Paul Murray

The more you free your heart from sin, the more your heart is free to serve. — Orrin Woodward

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame. — Thomas Seward