Rupert Hart-Davis quote: "To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch."<br /><br />[From a letter to George Lyttelton]"

delightfully simple - the sort of image that seems obvious when you've seen it, but none of us had.
ADAM-HART DAVIS

Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact hi...
ADAM-HART DAVIS

Wood is weirdly a big passion of mine. I really love it, all the way from trees to a finished table....
RUPERT FRIEND

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that succes...
RUPERT HOLMES

As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies t...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar,...
RUPERT GRAVES

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, ...
RUPERT MURDOCH

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
RUPERT MURDOCH

I now wear a Jawbone. This is a bracelet that keeps track of how I sleep, move and eat - transmittin...
RUPERT MURDOCH

You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees.
RUPERT FRIEND

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But...
RUPERT BROOKE

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindlin...
RUPERT BROOKE

All the little emptiness of love!
RUPERT BROOKE

I shall desire and I shall find
The best of my desires;
The autumn road, the mellow wind
Th...
RUPERT BROOKE

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
RUPERT BROOKE

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is fo...
RUPERT BROOKE

Just now the lilac is in bloom,
All before my little room;
And in my flower-beds, I think,...
RUPERT BROOKE

Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,
Each secret fishy hope or fear.
Fish say, they have their S...
RUPERT BROOKE

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
Is wetter water, slimier slime!
And there (they trust) t...
RUPERT BROOKE

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But...
RUPERT BROOKE

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
RUPERT BROOKE

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there s...
RUPERT BROOKE

Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lac...
RUPERT BROOKE

Her face was her chaperone.
RUPERT HUGHES

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
RUPERT BROOKE

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
RUPERT BROOKE

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot ...
RUPERT BROOKE

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is fo...
RUPERT BROOKE

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow eli...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise; Learn all we lac...
RUPERT BROOKE

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?
RUPERT BROOKE

Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybr...
RUPERT BROOKE

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and...
RUPERT MURDOCH

When I was 15, I went on a cricket tour of Zimbabwe with my school. My defining memory of it was str...
RUPERT EVANS

The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it i...
RUPERT EVERETT

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' ...
RUPERT GRAVES

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspap...
RUPERT MURDOCH

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
RUPERT BROOKE

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
RUPERT BROOKE

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
RUPERT BROOKE

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian r...
RUPERT MURDOCH

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA d...
RUPERT SHELDRAKE

I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish ...
RUPERT SANDERS

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look go...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they ...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.
RUPERT EVERETT

Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
RUPERT MURDOCH

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 ...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without ...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the worl...
RUPERT MURDOCH

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity....
RUPERT EVANS

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized...
RUPERT MURDOCH

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive ...
RUPERT SHELDRAKE

It was as if Jed had moved from one dimension to another. His original dimension hadn't reported him...
RUPERT THOMSON

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren...
RUPERT EVERETT

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of...
RUPERT MURDOCH

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to...
RUPERT HOLMES

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetica...
RUPERT GRAVES

I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. A...
RUPERT GRAVES

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out ab...
RUPERT EVERETT

Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display.
RUPERT GRAVES

I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. Pe...
RUPERT GRINT

I would say that being open to new things is kind of vital in this line of work, if not all lines of...
RUPERT FRIEND

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the sl...
RUPERT MURDOCH

One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent ey...
RUPERT BROOKE

The CNN international is a different service - it is even more leftist and anti-American than CNN is...
RUPERT MURDOCH

People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate abo...
RUPERT MURDOCH

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I...
RUPERT SANDERS

I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have ...
RUPERT MURDOCH

All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, cert...
RUPERT FRIEND

It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that driv...
JOHANN RUPERT

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike...
RUPERT SHELDRAKE

I find dipping one's toe into all of these people's lives is one of the major exciting point...
RUPERT FRIEND

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the...
RUPERT EVERETT

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally...
RUPERT FRIEND

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous ...
RUPERT HOLMES

I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is d...
RUPERT EVERETT

I got the 'I don't want the normal job' bug. At home, we have countless career advisors ...
RUPERT FRIEND

Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.
RUPERT FRIEND

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around th...
RUPERT EVERETT

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I ho...
RUPERT MURDOCH

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter fin...
RUPERT GRINT

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the ...
RUPERT SHELDRAKE

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feuda...
RUPERT FRIEND

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump int...
RUPERT EVERETT

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It...
RUPERT EVERETT

We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.
RUPERT MURDOCH

I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.
RUPERT GRINT

If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever...
RUPERT BROOKE

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, bu...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, you're a mas...
RUPERT GRAVES

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opp...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you i...
RUPERT MURDOCH

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other...
RUPERT SHELDRAKE

Lisa was the subject of a real old fashioned gamble, we took a number of four figure bets including ...
RUPERT ADAMS

Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.
RUPERT BROOKE

In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the...
RUPERT MURDOCH

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So...
RUPERT SHELDRAKE

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.
RUPERT GRINT

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.
RUPERT SANDERS

I've known Emma Watson since she was 9, we've watched each other grow up, formed this sort o...
RUPERT GRINT

My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are art...
RUPERT FRIEND

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about h...
RUPERT EVERETT

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist gener...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
RUPERT SHELDRAKE

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.
RUPERT MURDOCH

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they m...
RUPERT MURDOCH

In one respect New Orleans has set an example for all the world in the fight against yellow fever. T...
RUPERT BOYCE

What theatre people love about theatre - and I totally understand it, I just don't share it - is...
RUPERT FRIEND

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is mat...
RUPERT SHELDRAKE

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Just now the lilac is in bloom/ All before my little room.
RUPERT BROOKE

If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't s...
RUPERT MURDOCH

My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the h...
RUPERT EVERETT

I like to swim and ride my bike.
RUPERT GRINT

There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's s...
RUPERT EVERETT

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the f...
RUPERT MURDOCH

The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerf...
RUPERT SHELDRAKE

I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get ...
RUPERT FRIEND

I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to Bri...
RUPERT FRIEND

Fish say, they have their stream and pond;But is there anything beyond?
RUPERT BROOKE

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.
RUPERT GRINT

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
RUPERT EVERETT

I have nothing to complain about... except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it...
RUPERT EVERETT

One of the great things about having Madonna in the movie is that most gay men probably would want t...
RUPERT EVERETT

I don't want to just play gay characters, ... I think it would get boring to play the same thing aga...
RUPERT EVERETT

The weirdest thing about it is it seemed like such a bad opportunity at the beginning, ... Because o...
RUPERT EVERETT

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less, gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given. Her sights...
RUPERT BROOKE

When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said 'His name is not Wi...
RUPERT BROOKE

These have I loved
RUPERT BROOKE

Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, / And caught our youth, and wakened us from sl...
RUPERT BROOKE

Somewhere, behind space and time, Is wetter water, slimier slime
RUPERT BROOKE

And then you suddenly cried and turned away.
RUPERT BROOKE

Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
RUPERT BROOKE

And think, this heart, all evil shed away, / A pulse in the eternal mind, no less / Gives somewhere ...
RUPERT BROOKE

We do recognize the fact that the share price at the moment is rotten, ... There's some disconnect b...
RUPERT MURDOCH

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be he...
RUPERT MURDOCH

For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my ...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I believe that we now have a management team that will deliver stability, results and exciting footb...
RUPERT LOWE

I don't know what Icahn thinks he's doing. Icahn has gone out on a limb. Even if he succeeds in gett...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I...
RUPERT EVERETT

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral r...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual....
RUPERT FRIEND

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I en...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I think it's too early to comment on that. I think you can certainly discern that we would certainly...
RUPERT MURDOCH

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only...
RUPERT HOLMES

He read it in a ring binder, ... He said he thought the setting was fascinating, but he also liked t...
RUPERT HOLMES

Where the Truth Lies
RUPERT HOLMES

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.
RUPERT HOLMES

I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first...
RUPERT HOLMES

I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the ch...
RUPERT HOLMES

I once had a small role in one of my own plays, a thriller which happened to become a big hit on the...
RUPERT HOLMES

We said it was currently a policy of the board not to exit it (the poison pill) without going to sha...
RUPERT MURDOCH

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they w...
RUPERT MURDOCH

On the one hand, it's nasty to see it because you see what's going on. On the other hand, there are ...
RUPERT COLVILLE

There has been no outcry,
RUPERT MURDOCH

There has been no outcry, I've had hundreds of phone calls, there has been one call about the poison...
RUPERT MURDOCH

The earthquakes in people's heads, half the city's population was cracked, a rabble of doom-merchant...
RUPERT THOMSON

Should Yahoo have betrayed a source like that? ... I think they were wrong.
RUPERT MURDOCH

Is there any other industry in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the custome...
RUPERT MURDOCH

It will happen either in the last part of the year or the first month of next year,
RUPERT MURDOCH

It has the fastest growing audience. More importantly, broadband proliferation is at last real, mean...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Hopefully we will continue to improve our profits and improve our dividend.
RUPERT MURDOCH

Here (in the United States), we don't know. We may be forming a company with partners to build somet...
RUPERT MURDOCH

So to those of you who are wondering what our spending limit will be, my answer is this: We have a l...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I don't think we set that figure in concrete,
RUPERT MURDOCH

This is a time of fundamental change.
RUPERT MURDOCH

We see opportunities to participate in media developments across Europe.
RUPERT MURDOCH

This is a strategic move to further strengthen our book publishing business.
RUPERT MURDOCH

These shares don't carry rights and requirements. On the other hand, John's a friend and always woul...
RUPERT MURDOCH

The global media is on the internet,
RUPERT MURDOCH

without paying the proper premium.
RUPERT MURDOCH

sticky, fun and poised to be profitable.
RUPERT MURDOCH

For the second consecutive quarter, all of our primary content businesses, with the exception of fil...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I think we've got to do a better job at answering it. And there's a big job to do. But you're not go...
RUPERT MURDOCH

was committed solely to relaying the events fully, accurately and impartially.
RUPERT MURDOCH

We are 99 percent there.
RUPERT MURDOCH

Israel in the World
RUPERT MURDOCH

safeguard national culture.
RUPERT MURDOCH

It wasn't Gavin we were worried about but Charlotte. She was refusing to appear on MTV.
RUPERT MURDOCH

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four...
RUPERT GRINT

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the...
RUPERT GRINT

Like one time I was a fish in Noah's Ark and now I'm in Harry Potter, a big step.
RUPERT GRINT

It was really weird but also so much fun. I had such a brilliant time on the set.
RUPERT GRINT

Every time I come off-set, I am just like a normal kid again.
RUPERT GRINT

But we knew the characters pretty well because we were all big fans of the books.
RUPERT GRINT

My favorite scene in this film was the flying car, because that was just wicked.
RUPERT GRINT

Don't have a favorite subject, I think I want to carry on doing this because I really enjoy it.
RUPERT GRINT

It's going to be really weird to know that people are going to actually know my name, that's going t...
RUPERT GRINT

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
RUPERT GRINT

I'm learning to drive at the moment, so that's taking all my time.
RUPERT GRINT

We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one.
RUPERT GRINT

I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool.
RUPERT GRINT

But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.
RUPERT GRINT

You can lose yourself in it. It's for both kids and adults.
RUPERT GRINT

We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's.
RUPERT GRINT

I'd like to levitate.
RUPERT GRINT

I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs...
RUPERT GRINT

To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch."

[From a letter to George Lyttelton]

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To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch."

[From a letter to George Lyttelton]

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To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch."

[From a letter to George Lyttelton]