Famous quotes containing the words you think, you, british, series and/or composition:
“If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, youre out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, youre crazy. It can fix you so you cant play nothing or sing nothing.”
—Billie Holiday (19151959)
“Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on.
I do, Alice hastily replied; at leastat least I mean what I saythats the same thing, you know. Not the same thing a bit! said the Hatter. Why you might just as well say that I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Its like the Beatles coming together againlets hope they dont go on a world tour.”
—Matt Frei, British journalist. Quoted in Listener (London, June 21, 1990)
“Life ... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply wont be got rid of.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1928)
“Every thing in his composition was little; and he had all the weaknesses of a little mind, without any of the virtues, or even the vices, of a great one.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)