Mottram Quotes & Sayings

When you are in the future, the past looks different. — Richard Mottram

We'll show the world we are prosperous if we have to go broke to do it. — Will Rogers

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.'
'I don't think he is,' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people — Evelyn Waugh

I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote ... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for. — Shiloh Walker

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous ... — Abraham Lincoln

We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen. — William F. Laurance

Many people think of similar great things, but only the few act on it; which makes them great. — Pontius Joseph

The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as an example of something I might produce?' Let us, then, consider literature as a productive science. — J.V. Cunningham

I rejoiced in the Burgundy. It seemed a reminder that the world was an older and better place than Rex knew, that mankind in its long passion had learned another wisdom than his. By chance I met this same wine again, lunching with my wine merchant in St James's Street in the first Autumn of the war; it had softened and faded in the intervening years, but it still spoke in the pure, authentic accent of its prime, the same words of hope. — Evelyn Waugh

'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate. — Eddie Van Halen

It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh. — Sister Parish

Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center. — Jodi Picoult

Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes. — Mario Bunge

The more modest your expectations, the less often you will court disappointment. — Dorothy Dunnett

The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice. — Richard Mottram

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth. — Richard Mottram