Quirke Quotes & Sayings

My inamorata, you know where I'll be: where I'll always be. Waiting. For you. — Debra Anastasia

Everybody does it!" Quirke burst out. "It's perks!"
"Everybody?" said Vimes. He looked around at the squad. "Anyone else here take bribes?"
His glare ran from face to face, causing most of the squad to do an immediate impression of the Floorboard and Ceiling Inspectors Synchronized Observation Team. — Terry Pratchett

I could be a dray man delivering the beer, maybe. If they could wangle some cockney in, that would be great. — Pauline Quirke

My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries. — Phil Daniels

Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating. — Pauline Quirke

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation. — John W. Thompson

People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather. — Pauline Quirke

I'm not a fan of maggots. I could never do that I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! — Pauline Quirke

I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints. — Pauline Quirke

It doesn't take much to say please or thank you. — Pauline Quirke

Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on the way out. What we have instead is a small island of new free music surrounded by some good reworkings of past idioms and a vast sargasso sea of absolute garbage. — Lester Bangs

Because no matter how hard a conversation is, I know that on the other side of that difficult conversation lies peace. Knowledge. An answer delivered. Character is revealed. Truces are formed. Misunderstandings are resolved. Freedom lies across the field of the difficult conversation. An the more difficult the conversation, the greater the freedom. — Shonda Rhimes

At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously. — Chelsea Clinton

I don't think I spoil my kids, I'm fairly responsible. — Pauline Quirke

It's our children who teach us how to be parents. — Susie Morgenstern

Enemy are your friends"... YOOU ARE FUCKING DRUNK... THIS CONCLUSION IS FUCKING WRONG. — Deyth Banger

It's never too late - not now, not ever - for you to pursue your passion. — Debbi Fields

Captain Quirke looked around the Watch room with the air of one who was doing the scenery a favour by looking at it. — Terry Pratchett

Jesus, honey," he muttered. "How can I say no to you? — Sibylla Matilde

As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time. — Lauren Conrad

Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions. — Hannah More

Watching movies simply is a promiscuous experience. The voracity it breeds! That quantity of quiddity compressed and quickened and sent at you! It's a little bit mad, isn't it, to hold a faithful flame for the one you've picked, when no such choice is required of you? The sane response to a rainbow is not to pick your favourite colour. — Antonia Quirke

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits. — Allen Klein

It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat. — Pauline Quirke

The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But then again the road to change never is. — Barack Obama

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again. — Channing Tatum