Quite Quotes

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.

I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.