Quite Quotes
- Page 19It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.
Michael Chang
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill
An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
Joseph McCabe
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
Sylvia Plath
They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.
Rupert Grint
Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.
Sophie Marceau
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town.
Hermann Maier
Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
Virginia C. Andrews
It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
Nicholas D. Kristof
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.
James Payn
The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
John Cleese
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
Hannah Arendt
In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.
Dennis Kucinich
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
James Broughton
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
Beverly Cleary
The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.
Bruce Boxleitner