War Of The Worlds Curate Quotes & Sayings

I had been in France less than 48 hours before that obliging agent of yours had to stop me being run over by a French van full of French chickens because I'd looked the wrong way before crossing the street. Which shows how cunning the Gestapo are. This person I've pulled from beneath the wheels of certain death was expecting traffic to travel on the left side of the road. Therefore she must be British, and is likely to have parachuted into Nazi-occupied France out of an Allied plane. I shall now arrest her as a spy. — Elizabeth Wein

When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another. — Samuel Johnson

'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it. — Rachel Tucker

Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever. — Ian Curtis

It is not asking much
one person
out of all the world. — Sonya Hartnett

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer. — Richard Holt Hutton

I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts. — Jack Johnson

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history. — Marjorie Garber

People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them. — John Dos Passos

Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors. — George Carlin

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con. — Carolyn Hax

Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder. — Francesca Lia Block

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School) — Dwight D. Eisenhower

At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets ... It seemed like they were being treated as museum items. — Yohji Yamamoto