Ed Townsend Quotes

Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.

The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

History is a means of access to ourselves.

An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)

Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Democracy is not about one party dominating.

It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.

Leading from your inner world ultimately produces better results in your leadership.

A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.

Make every decision as if you owned the company.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.

Tim Howard is as sharp as a tank.

Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast.

He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.

Chicharito must have icicles flowing through his veins

Arsenal have the wind in their sails and they need to put their foot to the floor.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Don't share your dreams with everyone. Make them a reality - then share.

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.

And another day is tucked under my wing.

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.