That whisky priest, I wish we had never had him in the house.
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ALAN FURST From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient...
DOUGLAS KENNEDY I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH I wish we had put on a better display for him.
ADAM DUNN Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte...
PAUL THEROUX I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN Seeing him throw like that gave me a warm feeling. I wish we had five more just like him.
MIKE HARGROVE I wish I had never met Jack.
ADAM KIDAN This has been such a Monday! I wish I stayed in bed, and I wish that yesterday had never happ...
LISA MANTCHEV I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
JIMMY CARTER Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Do...
PHIL KLAY I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.
JUSTIN WELBY I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I wish everybody had the drive he had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him ...
YOGI BERRA Nelson does not have the strong persona that Bob Graham had.
DAVID JOHNSON I let him kiss me because he had been in war and he fought for me, ... I only wish now I had had a c...
EDITH SHAIN I wish I had a funny story.
LESLIE EASTERBROOK We weren't going to push him, but I looked at him and he was back in there. You've got to love him. ...
DON DUNN I wish that all of my enemies had three cars parked in front of their house. An ambulance, fire tru...
SHORT QUOTES My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simeno...
ROBERT HARRIS I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a l...
MICHAEL KORDA (Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that ...
NANCY GIBBS; MICHAEL DUFFY In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.
JOHN AMES I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in ...
ALAN FURST I have no doubt Graham is the right person to lead the Carlton Football Club and like all directors ...
GREG LEE 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ...
ELVIS MITCHELL It was bad, real bad. I had never been away from my house for that long. I called my daddy and told ...
ANDY MARTE As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great...
JULIE BURCHILL I've never had an empty house. Ever.
MEREDITH MONK I never really considered going (to Georgia). One of the reasons was because they had (D.J.) Shockle...
BLAKE MITCHELL My only regrets in my career are that I never spent any time overseas as a reporter, and that I was ...
ART COOPER Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It wa...
MARK MCGWIRE He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
GRAHAM GREENE I don't know about "any" publisher. But Katharine Graham and I had been working together for almost ...
BEN BRADLEE I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
NASTASSJA KINSKI I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.
GENA ROWLANDS Most teams do not get a back like that on scout team. We had to chase him, we had to contain him eve...
DONTEZ SANDERS I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way ...
HENNING MANKELL We had our tactical medics render aid to him immediately, and that is when we got him out of the hou...
GARY HESTER My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and cal...
CHELSEA HANDLER It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th...
PETER CRISS And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and...
BIBLE It's hard for them. I had one client who had never worn jeans, even in casual settings. I had to tel...
CLAIRE WEXLER Coach has had a great career, a great run. Whatever he does, we wish him the best.
WILLIE ROAF Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the i...
LEE SCOTT I'd talk to him and he'd say, 'We'll have the wedding we never had. We'll have the wedding pictures ...
MICHELLE YAZZIE We had a marked patrol car pull him over, bring him back to the house, and execute the search warran...
LT. DARRELL SANDERS I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was Presiden...
JIMMY CARTER Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner
SAMUEL JOHNSON That was the most money we had ever seen in this house.
LEROY ADCOCK I had no knowledge of his background whatsoever, ... I never, ever would have hired him had I known ...
ELIZABETH SMART I happened to see Larry King interview Billy Graham shortly after the shootings at Columbine High Sc...
DONALD MILLER For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't ...
NEIL TENNANT To my mind, a family house felt lived-in, not brand-new, with a patina of age and history that a mod...
GALE ANNE HURD All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo...
ALICE WALKER I wish it had been a unanimous vote but we had some outstanding candidates.
COOTER FAILLA Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do a...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I never really had the chance to say goodbye to the fans. I had a chance at the White House to say g...
AARON ROWAND I never got my uniform dirty. I had the best seat in the house. Our front seven just swallowed every...
DICK LEBEAU There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
QUEEN MARY (CONSORT OF GEORGE V) I always knew he had it in him. He had the hot hand, so we had to keep giving it to him.
JANSEN HAMILTON All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c...
ALICE WALKER We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed.
FOUAD ALAOUI When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Green...
ALAN FURST She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside wor...
GILES FODEN In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I wish we had the money to do this. I think we all do.
JOE SCHITTER I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish...
BILL AYERS And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the ho...
BIBLE I watched how to win - I had the best seat in the house and what I saw was that Phil had fun
CHRIS DIMARCO I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an a...
BOB COSTAS Mom and Dad can make the rulesAnd certain things forbid,But I can make them wish that theyhad never ...
BILL WATTERSON I had that L.A. mentality, I shredded the garbage and I had picked a house that was isolated,
LAUREN HOLLY This family has had its differences and we've squabbled, but we've never had knife fights before, an...
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JAMES MOODY One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at...
DAVE LOMBARDO The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I only wish we could have had this dialogue sooner.
BRAD SMITH I wish we had capitalized on more of our opportunities.
CINDY SOLIC I wish we had a little torch that we could pass around in the locker room. When you hold it, it's yo...
CHELSI WELCH I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary s...
ROSS MACDONALD No way! I wish I had more involvement in the case.
STEPHEN RAYMOND Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to de...
BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD I knew I was a grain of sand in the vast desert that never ended and he was a sparkling star in the ...
ALEENA YASIN After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that...
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JAY PARINI I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON We had to foolproof the house.
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GRAHAM GREENE Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to m...
GRAHAM GREENE The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware...
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GRAHAM GREENE Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
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GRAHAM GREENE You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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would one have to pity even the planets? If one reached wh...
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GRAHAM GREENE Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'
Ah, but one ca...
GRAHAM GREENE A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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GRAHAM GREENE He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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GRAHAM GREENE And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality th...
GRAHAM GREENE She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of m...
GRAHAM GREENE Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
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GRAHAM GREENE Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more t...
GRAHAM GREENE But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of...
GRAHAM GREENE I became aware that our love was doomed; love had turned into a love affair with a beginning and an ...
GRAHAM GREENE I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.
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GRAHAM GREENE Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
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GRAHAM GREENE The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.
GRAHAM GREENE They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.
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GRAHAM GREENE We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, s...
GRAHAM GREENE Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin...
NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib...
ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ...
ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good.
ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott...
ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con...
ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens.
ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.
ALAN GREENE