Glenn Close Quotes and Sayings

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That’s basically what we do.
- Glenn Close

Annie Roth is one our best, most inspired costume designers. And she’s a full collaborator in constructing a character.
- Glenn Close

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That’s the bottom line.
- Glenn Close

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I’m proud of that.
- Glenn Close

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that’s the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
- Glenn Close

Diva has a negative connotation.
- Glenn Close

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.
- Glenn Close

I don’t think the tabloids find me very interesting.
- Glenn Close

I find it quite amusing that I can frighten children by just saying, Puppies. Usually they’re disappointed I don’t actually have black and white hair.
- Glenn Close

I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.
- Glenn Close

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind.
- Glenn Close

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.
- Glenn Close

I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It’s molecular even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater. and when I first went into movies I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera.

I never got into this business thinking I’d be like a movie star.
- Glenn Close

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.
- Glenn Close

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they’re trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.
- Glenn Close

I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.
- Glenn Close

I’m an actor, that’s my contribution.
- Glenn Close

I’ve been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.
- Glenn Close

I’ve often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.
- Glenn Close

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
- Glenn Close

In no way, holds you responsible for what happened to Troy.
- Glenn Close

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
- Glenn Close

It is very difficult for girls. They’re told to look one way, but to act another way.
- Glenn Close

It was the cherry on the cake for one of the great experiences of my career.” - On her 1984 Tony win for playing Annie in “The Real Thing
- Glenn Close

It’s gotten out of control. It’s taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won’t get made at all.
- Glenn Close

It’s not good to be in a situation where people don’t want to direct you or don’t want to question something.
- Glenn Close

Superman….a very little drop in the ocean compared to the things he’s done.
- Glenn Close

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It’s my way of saying, Don’t mess with me.
- Glenn Close

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
- Glenn Close

There’s something about a catharsis that is very important.
- Glenn Close

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.
- Glenn Close

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.
- Glenn Close

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.
- Glenn Close

With the hugely talented women I’ve worked with or observed, it’s not a question about temperament or ego; it’s a question about getting it right. If they’ve got a reputation for being difficult it’s usually because they just don’t suffer fools.
- Glenn Close

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.
- Glenn Close

Agnetha Faltskog Quotes and Sayings

Abba’s last tour was a success but awful for me.
- Agnetha Faltskog

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women’s mental health: employment improves it.
- Agnetha Faltskog

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.
- Agnetha Faltskog

Feminism’s agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
- Agnetha Faltskog

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
- Agnetha Faltskog

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels’ tracks behind me in the snow.
- Agnetha Faltskog

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.
- Agnetha Faltskog

I must be allowed to be as I am.
- Agnetha Faltskog

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn’t keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don’t regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don’t want to go into!
- Agnetha Faltskog

It’s strange that the newspapers don’t see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
- Agnetha Faltskog

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
- Agnetha Faltskog

My professional persona never loosens its grip, keeping an eye on me at all times.
- Agnetha Faltskog

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
- Agnetha Faltskog

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
- Agnetha Faltskog

This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn’t interest me. It’s only really done to make money.
- Agnetha Faltskog

When I’m living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it’s a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
- Agnetha Faltskog

Britney Spears Quotes and Sayings

Onstage I’m the happiest person in the world.
- Britney Spears

There’s no master plan! I’m just gonna be me and hope it all works out!
- Britney Spears

I want to wait to have sex until I’m married.
- Britney Spears

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn’t mean I’m naughty.
- Britney Spears

I’m famous, but I’m not famous like freaking Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston.
- Britney Spears

I need to sing and I love to travel.
- Britney Spears

Marry Prince William? I’d love that. Who wouldn’t want to be a princess?
- Britney Spears

I don’t like defining myself. I just am.
- Britney Spears

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
- Britney Spears

I did not have implants, I just had a growth spurt.
- Britney Spears

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt… because love is an amazing feeling.
- Britney Spears

I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.
- Britney Spears

When you’re comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that’s how me and J. are. When we’re in a room together, we don’t have to say anything. It’s for real.
- Britney Spears

Justin is everything, and what more could you want in a person? He’s funny. He’s cute. He’s great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and that’s cool.
- Britney Spears

I like to poo.
- Britney Spears

I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that’s young, happy and fun.
- Britney Spears

You can’t help but change a little bit, but on the inside I’m still completely the same person.
- Britney Spears

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I’m offstage, I’m just like everybody else.
- Britney Spears

Don’t treat me like a little girl.
- Britney Spears

I’m rich, freakin’ rich. It’s crazy.
- Britney Spears

I always call my cousin because we’re so close. We’re almost like sisters, and we’re also close because our moms are sisters.
- Britney Spears

I’m attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.
- Britney Spears

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
- Britney Spears

I don’t want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don’t tell me. I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I’m 17, people think I don’t see stuff like that.
- Britney Spears

Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.
- Britney Spears

I did not have implants, I just had a growth spurt.
- Britney Spears

Oscar Wilde Quotes and Sayings

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- Oscar Wilde

A mans face is his autobiography. A women’s face is her work of fiction.
-  Oscar Wilde

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
- Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror.
- Oscar Wilde

But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
- Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative
- Oscar Wilde

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography
- Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
- Oscar Wilde

Genius is born, not paid.
- Oscar Wilde

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
- Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
- Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
- Oscar Wilde

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
- Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life
- Oscar Wilde

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are.
- Oscar Wilde

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- Oscar Wilde

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
- Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
- Oscar Wilde

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable
- Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
- Oscar Wilde

Anthony Trollope Quotes and Sayings

Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
- Anthony Trollope

A fellow oughtn’t to let his family property go to pieces.
- Anthony Trollope

A spoken word, Sir Abraham, is often of more value than volumes of written advice
- Anthony Trollope

A woman’s life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man’s life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
- Anthony Trollope

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
- Anthony Trollope

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
- Anthony Trollope

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so
- Anthony Trollope

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
- Anthony Trollope

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
- Anthony Trollope

I do like a little romance… just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven’t got that.
- Anthony Trollope

I doubt there is any true courage,” said he, “in squabbling for money.
- Anthony Trollope

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
- Anthony Trollope

It is the test of a novel writer’s art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
- Anthony Trollope

It’s dogged as does it. It’s not thinking about it.
- Anthony Trollope

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
- Anthony Trollope

It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies–who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two–that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.
- Anthony Trollope

Life is so unlike theory.
- Anthony Trollope

When men think much, they can rarely decide.
- Anthony Trollope

Christina Aguilera Quotes and Sayings

Britney and I show a little tummy and it’s like, “Oh My God.” But N’Sync or Backstreet Boys will do repeated pelvic thrusts to an audience of pre-pubescent girls and nobody says anything!
- Christina Aguilera

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.
- Christina Aguilera

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
- Christina Aguilera

I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, ‘If you talk to her, I’ll kill you.’ It’s always rough with that high school thing.
- Christina Aguilera

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
- Christina Aguilera

I think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There’s so many ways to enhance them, everybody does it.
- Christina Aguilera

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.
- Christina Aguilera

Its really beautiful and expensive and I like it a lot. I’ve gotten a lot of complements on it. It just seemed erotic in a place most people wouldn’t have the guts to do it.
Christina Aguilera on a diamond stud piercing in a very private part of her body.
Rolling Stone, Nov. 14, 2002.
- Christina Aguilera

I’m a risk taker and I’ve always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.
- Christina Aguilera

I’m an ocean, because I’m really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
- Christina Aguilera

I’m experimental by nature… always exploring my creativity.
- Christina Aguilera

I’m not just another bimbo.
- Christina Aguilera

I’m not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
- Christina Aguilera

It’s been quite a roller coaster ride, but I’ve grown and learned a lot about myself… The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people’s lives…For that I give thanks.
- Christina Aguilera

It’s definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it’s also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don’t know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.
- Christina Aguilera

My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.
- Christina Aguilera

My grandma was like, ‘Oh Christina, you look like a whore!’ I explained that’s the idea. (On her ‘Moulin Rouge’ video look)
- Christina Aguilera

My parent’s divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn’t necessarily have had otherwise.
- Christina Aguilera

The roughest road often leads to the top.
- Christina Aguilera

To convey that emotion and high energy, especially to belt out some notes, the red lipstick helped me get to that mind frame.
- Christina Aguilera

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
- Christina Aguilera

Right now I’m pretty single… My career is my boyfriend.
- Christina Aguilera

So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
- Christina Aguilera

The roughest road often leads to the top.
- Christina Aguilera

The schedule is crazy - it’s all suitcases and hotel rooms and you just go nonstop. It’s a crazy lifestyle, it really is.
- Christina Aguilera

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending… we gotta let ourselves be.
- Christina Aguilera

Whatever I do, it’s my business. It’s not my job to parent America.
- Christina Aguilera

Brad Pitt Quotes and Sayings

Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able.
- Brad Pitt

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
- Brad Pitt

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.
- Brad Pitt

Fame is a bitch, man.
- Brad Pitt

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
- Brad Pitt

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.
- Brad Pitt

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what’s more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.
- Brad Pitt

I know when I go outside, there’ll be a van or two and they’ll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I’m just going across town and I know they’re just wasting their day, so it doesn’t bother me anymore.
- Brad Pitt

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said ‘We saw your movie.’ ‘Which one?’ I said. He shouted ‘Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn’t like?
- Brad Pitt

I remember as I turned 30 I said, “I have no more excuses for myself. I’ve got to figure these things out.”
- Brad Pitt

I’d like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.
- Brad Pitt

I’m going to record an album with Jennifer Lopez. It’ll be acoustic versions of KC & the Sunshine Band.
- Brad Pitt

I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.
- Brad Pitt

I’m performing naked cartwheels. I’m very excited.(On marriage to Jennifer Aniston)
- Brad Pitt

My beard is staying because it covers my bum shaped chin!’ - Discussing his much discussed beard.
- Brad Pitt

They hand me a script. I act. I’m here for entertainment, basically,when you whittle everything away. I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.
- Brad Pitt

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
- Brad Pitt

We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home (on his first girlfriend)
- Brad Pitt

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
- Brad Pitt

Robbie Williams Quotes and Sayings

Actresses, models, musicians are mental. Actresses are in the relay team carrying the McBonkers torch to the stadium of mad.
- Robbie Williams

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I’m going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
- Robbie Williams

As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I’m still performing at 50, it’s because I’ll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.
- Robbie Williams

I am the only man who can say he’s been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls.
- Robbie Williams

I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.
- Robbie Williams

I couldn’t live without my music, man. Or me mum.
- Robbie Williams

I didn’t lose my mind, it was mine to give away.
- Robbie Williams

I don’t have anything that I treasure at all. They’re just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn’t be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.
- Robbie Williams

I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I’m a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer.’ (Live at Knebworth park summer 2003)
- Robbie Williams

I want to be like David Bowie or Iggy Pop and I’m more like Norman Wisdom…I’ve given myself a hard time thinking about my lyrics. I just thought they were s**t. Just about fit enough to be on the inside of greeting cards.
- Robbie Williams

I’m a born entertainer, when I open the fridge and the light comes on, I burst into song.
- Robbie Williams

I’m scared for the world. This guy (Bush) is obviously an idiot. He can’t speak…I’d do a better job than him - and I’m not very bright!
- Robbie Williams

She looks like a cross between someone in a gay club at six in the morning and someone’s who’s trying to save trees.
- Robbie Williams

She turned into a demonic little girl. It was genuinely scaring me.(On Geri Halliwell)
- Robbie Williams

She’s got a face like a satellite dish!
- Robbie Williams

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I’ve had sex in trains, planes, wine bars… and quite a few car parks!
- Robbie Williams

This is my 48th award this year. Apparently when I reach 50 I can trade them in for a kettle.
- Robbie Williams

To be honest, I don’t want No. 1’s anymore. Now, don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t mind the odd few, but I’d also like a record going in at eight and staying around.
- Robbie Williams

When I met David Beckham I didn’t know whether to shake his hand or lick his face.
- Robbie Williams

With the war and everything that’s going on, unless you’re Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!
- Robbie Williams

You’ll do anything for your 15 minutes of fame. Dead right. I’d sign anything, I’ll do anything, I’d climb the Eiffel Tower in a pair of Y-fronts with ‘Shit on me, seagulls’ written on my back.
- Robbie Williams

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travelers notoriously false?
- H. P. Lovecraft

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
- H. P. Lovecraft

Heaven knows where I’ll end up - but it’s a safe bet that I’ll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
- H. P. Lovecraft

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man’s opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he’s talking about.
- H. P. Lovecraft

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
- H. P. Lovecraft

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
- H. P. Lovecraft

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
- H. P. Lovecraft

In the land of Sona-Nyl there is neither time nor space, neither suffering nor death.
- H. P. Lovecraft

It is a treadmill, squirrel-trap culture - drugged and frenzied with the hashish of industrial servitude and material luxury. It is wholly a material body-culture, and its symbol is the tiled bathroom and steam radiator rather than the Doric portico and the temple of philosophy.
- H. P. Lovecraft

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
- H. P. Lovecraft

Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!
- H. P. Lovecraft

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
- H. P. Lovecraft

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
- H. P. Lovecraft

The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
- H. P. Lovecraft

Those who have watched the tall, lean, Terrible Old Man in these peculiar conversations, do not watch him again.
- H. P. Lovecraft

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
- H. P. Lovecraft

An answer ready to go.
- John Major

At the time, yes.
- John Major

Both the United Kingdom and South Africa are keen to develop the relationship that exists and make it closer yet and on the basis of the discussions that we have this morning, that is something we will readily be able to achieve.
- John Major

I can’t remember an occasion when there was so much excitement and anticipation about a game of cricket. It has been a truly phenomenal series.
- John Major

I didn’t come from two rooms in Brixton to 10 Downing Street not to go out and fight with every fiber of my being for the things I believe in and the country I love.
- John Major

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
- John Major

It remains impossible to reconcile Sinn Fein’s rhetoric for peace with the IRA’s preparations for murder.
- John Major

It’s a puzzle, and it’s keeping us on our toes. It’s showing signs of an eruption, but not to the size and magnitude of 1980.
- John Major

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
- John Major

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
- John Major

The events of 25 years ago constituted a terrible tragedy, and I believe everyone is determined that the lessons of that day are never forgotten.
- John Major

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
- John Major

The new rules are not necessarily unfair,
- John Major

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
- John Major

This is David expressing a personal view that many people will agree with but it isn’t party policy.
- John Major

This is exactly the kind of event that we’ve sort of been talking about and anticipating over the past several days. This is a fairly small eruption.
- John Major

We want a truly open society, in which every man and woman will be able to go as far as their talent, ambition and effort take them.
- John Major