Tonbridge School Quotes & Sayings

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards. — Antony Beevor

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you. — Robert McNamara

My vision is to change the world and paint it with a brush that is powerful enough to make us one. — Morgan Chabane

Only then do I realize that the jewel had always been with in me, even then and that the light had always shinned, only my eyes were closed — Dan Millman

Fierce, and what capitalists sometimes call 'ruinous' competition tends, therefore, to produce leap-frogging innovations that more often that not lead capitalists to fetishise technological and organisational innovations as the answer to all their prayers — David Harvey

When friends couldn't be found, the books were always waiting with something new to tell. Life that was getting too much the same could be shaken up in a few minutes by the pictures in a book of some ancient temple newly discovered deep in a rain-forest, a fuzzy photo of Uranus with it's up-and-down rings, or a prismed picture taken through the faceted eye of a bee.
-Nita Callahan-
-So You Want To Be A Wizard- — Diane Duane

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. — David Mamet

A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates,
Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates. — E.E. Knight

Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me. — David Bezmozgis

At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school. — Dan Stevens

I tuned out, and watched the other people in the pub, wondering about their lives. Each of them would have huge events in their own families - babies loved and lost, dark secrets, great joys and tragedies. If they could put it into perspective, if they could just enjoy a sunny evening in a pub garden, then surely I should too. And — Jojo Moyes

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on. — Ben E. King