Alan Bradley quote: "I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged."

My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended int...
ALAN BRADLEY

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily...
ALAN BRADLEY

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
ALAN BRADLEY

The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.

Flavia de Luce
ALAN BRADLEY

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is o...
ALAN BRADLEY

How could tickling, even though it causes laughter, be at the same time such a vicious form of tortu...
ALAN BRADLEY

Books make the soul float.
ALAN BRADLEY

These are two rare title triumphs for us and it's fantastic they have come at a special time for the...
ALAN BRADLEY

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
ALAN BRADLEY

If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie." When I write my magnum opus,...
ALAN BRADLEY

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting t...
ALAN BRADLEY

If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in...
ALAN BRADLEY

I remembered a piece of sisterly advice, which Feely once gave Daffy and me:
"If ever you're ac...
ALAN BRADLEY

You are unreliable, Flavia,' he said. 'Utterly unreliable.'
Of course I was! It was one of the ...
ALAN BRADLEY

How could I tell Clarence that finding another dead body was anything but dreadful? On the contrary:...
ALAN BRADLEY

Have you ever wondered, Dogger," I asked, "if wickedness is a chemical state?"
"Indeed I have, ...
ALAN BRADLEY

Not to be too dramatic about it, that night I slept the sleep of the damned. I dreamt of turrets and...
ALAN BRADLEY

True charity, I had had discovered, consists of swallowing an invisible flaming sword.
ALAN BRADLEY

Giving someone the benefit of the doubt is not so simple as it sounds. What it means, in fact, is be...
ALAN BRADLEY

We always want to love the recipients of our charity," the doctor said, negotiating a sharp bend in ...
ALAN BRADLEY

Do What?'
'Lie,' he said. 'Why do you fabricate these outlandish stories?'
'Well,' I want...
ALAN BRADLEY

I brought to mind the image of the stranger lying there in the first light of dawn: the slight growt...
ALAN BRADLEY

I had found by experience that putting things down on paper helped to clear the mind in precisely th...
ALAN BRADLEY

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
ALAN BRADLEY

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christ...
ALAN BRADLEY

I visualized myself pulling on my mental thinking cap, jamming it down around my ears as I had taugh...
ALAN BRADLEY

Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy ...
ALAN BRADLEY

Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively...
ALAN BRADLEY

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's hou...
ALAN BRADLEY

There's a reason we English are ruled more by tea than by Buckingham Palace or His Majesty's Governm...
ALAN BRADLEY

Kun nyt katselin silmänsä ummistanutta, polvistunutta Feelyä, jonka taivaaseen suunnatut sormenp�...
ALAN BRADLEY

As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot...
ALAN BRADLEY

It was quite wrong of me Had I heard what I thought I’d heard or were my ears playing hob with me ...
ALAN BRADLEY

I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored h...
ALAN BRADLEY

I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a ...
ALAN BRADLEY

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who...
ALAN BRADLEY

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's cr...
ALAN BRADLEY

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to Englan...
ALAN BRADLEY

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great...
ALAN BRADLEY

…because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world...
ALAN BRADLEY

I felt a pang -- a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before.
It was homesick...
ALAN BRADLEY

One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimen...
ALAN BRADLEY

Either way, the whole thing was a pain in the porpoise.
ALAN BRADLEY

What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creati...
ALAN BRADLEY

Simple pleasures are best.
ALAN BRADLEY

I can't believe George Bush might be president.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even iden...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I ...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. ...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Love means never having to say you're a zero.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got ...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what yo...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said '...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role ...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want t...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the bette...
ED BRADLEY

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like tha...
BRADLEY COOPER

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.
BRADLEY CHICHO

I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't...
BRADLEY COOPER

Shine like the day I set cosmic eyes on you, friend, by the light of the sweet squash in my lovely l...
BRADLEY CHICHO

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
ED BRADLEY

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
ED BRADLEY

Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
ED BRADLEY

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a play...
ED BRADLEY

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
ED BRADLEY

I did anything that would get me on the air.
ED BRADLEY

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
ED BRADLEY

But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
ED BRADLEY

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronk...
ED BRADLEY

My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called...
ED BRADLEY

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that&#...
ED BRADLEY

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
ED BRADLEY

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.
ED BRADLEY

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job...
ED BRADLEY

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
ED BRADLEY

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that...
ED BRADLEY

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think t...
ED BRADLEY

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because ...
ED BRADLEY

So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a comm...
ED BRADLEY

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no ma...
ED BRADLEY

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Pa...
ED BRADLEY

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do t...
ED BRADLEY

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important...
ED BRADLEY

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at ...
ED BRADLEY

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
ED BRADLEY

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered lov...
BRADLEY CHICHO

If a wicked rake doesn’t kiss a young lady when they’re alone in a moonlit rose garden, might it...
ANNA BRADLEY

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just ...
AMANDA BRADLEY

I am under no illusion that our present strategy of using means short of total war to achieve our en...
OMAR BRADLEY

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
OMAR BRADLEY

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to ens...
OMAR BRADLEY

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
OMAR BRADLEY

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I d...
PRESTON BRADLEY

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology with...
OMAR BRADLEY

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.
TOM BRADLEY

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, bu...
OMAR BRADLEY

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
BILL BRADLEY

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along wi...
OMAR BRADLEY

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
BILL BRADLEY

We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind...
OMAR BRADLEY

The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co...
PRESTON BRADLEY

Expect victory and you make victory.
PRESTON BRADLEY

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
BILL BRADLEY

The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.
TOM BRADLEY

People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are lo...
TOM BRADLEY

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our...
OMAR BRADLEY

Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams.
TOM BRADLEY

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented wi...
BRADLEY CHICHO

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers u...
BRADLEY COOPER

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
BILL BRADLEY

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking ...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
BILL BRADLEY

I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's tem...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

I had a small investment in Twofold, following guidance from my professional advisers. I had, howeve...
BRADLEY WIGGINS

All I have are the people.
BILL BRADLEY

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.
BILL BRADLEY

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
BILL BRADLEY

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
BILL BRADLEY

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those wh...
BILL BRADLEY

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we...
BILL BRADLEY

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
BILL BRADLEY

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing b...
BRADLEY CHICHO

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I ...
BILL BRADLEY

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future....
BRADLEY WHITFORD

If you didn't go out every time it was raining, you wouldn't get anything done. So it's ...
BRADLEY WIGGINS

The beauty is, while you're working on chipping, you're also working on driving. This is bec...
KEEGAN BRADLEY

Things change; your priorities change in life. So I'd never think of riding 100 miles on Christm...
BRADLEY WIGGINS

I will make sure that my administration reflects the diversity of the country, ... African American,...
BILL BRADLEY

This is the civil rights issue of our time, ... It is no longer blocking schools. It is having the j...
BILL BRADLEY

I have not posed it. I don't think it would be necessary,
BILL BRADLEY

I don't support gay marriage, but I do support domestic partnership legislation that would provide g...
BILL BRADLEY

I hope that all leaders in this country will be innovative in trying to find ways to reach out to pe...
BILL BRADLEY

I will fight to make sure that (privacy protection) occurs,
BILL BRADLEY

I could never appoint someone to the Supreme Court who I thought would turn back the clock on civil ...
BILL BRADLEY

Our program would cost between $50 and $65 billion to make sure 95 percent of all Americans have hea...
BILL BRADLEY

must maintain strict protection for civil rights and a clear separation of church and state.
BILL BRADLEY

Democrats distrust the market, preach government is the answer to our problems and prefer the bureau...
BILL BRADLEY

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my C...
BRADLEY COOPER

Obviously I'm real happy with the way we are hitting the ball. I think our defense could be a little...
ANDREW BRADLEY

Sam pitched very well for us, we just have to get some of those runners to score.
ANDREW BRADLEY

We played well in the first game, we just couldn't come up with the big hit. Eric was just dominant ...
ANDREW BRADLEY

They gave me a good deal so I can't complain. I'm coming from a program that's like a family, and Ma...
ANDREW BRADLEY

We hit the ball very hard today. We gave up four runs in the top of the first, but I was very happy ...
ANDREW BRADLEY

We grew up together, wrestling on the same team, and we'd been talking all summer about [wrestling e...
ANDREW BRADLEY

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times o...
BILL BRADLEY

I am prepared to vote in support of a new military authorization that specifically authorizes U.S. m...
BRADLEY BYRNE

I firmly believe a rising tide lifts all boats. I think having Airbus only grows and brings more att...
BRADLEY BYRNE

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of ou...
BRADLEY CHICHO

I delight in the sweet and sour moments we routinely share, together applauded by muppets in leotard...
BRADLEY CHICHO

One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He'...
BRADLEY WIGGINS

When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the...
KEEGAN BRADLEY

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

You think if you win the Olympics, you'll become a millionaire overnight. But I was still scrapi...
BRADLEY WIGGINS

They do say now in cycling that there's no such thing as bad weather - it's bad clothing.
BRADLEY WIGGINS

I get fans stopping me and telling me what a bad man I am. I got a lot of that at Comic-Con. I'd...
DAVID BRADLEY

Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth.
BRADLEY CHICHO

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

I just wrapped this movie called 'The Wedding Crashers' which was a pretty big break for me.
BRADLEY COOPER

When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the re...
F.H. BRADLEY

I wanted to write ‘stay’ on your sides, surround your bed with oceans of salt. I hope he folds y...
J. BRADLEY

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical ...
OMAR BRADLEY

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality re...
BILL BRADLEY

I was the first to win a major with a belly putter, and I've spent hours practicing that way, so...
KEEGAN BRADLEY

In Merlin, Arthur has a very loyal friend who keeps him on his toes. Arthur enjoys those challenges,...
BRADLEY JAMES

I came to the conclusion that I'm not going to give up cycling because some people are cheating.
BRADLEY WIGGINS

Dale said it was a benefit to work under the lights. You run for $6 million, you want to be prepared...
BUFF BRADLEY

Dad's a trip, a true one-of-a-kind. He really was doing all those things at once. When I was still l...
BUFF BRADLEY

I've seen him run both ways. I don't know how much pace there will be. If it's strong, he can be fur...
BUFF BRADLEY

It's been a pleasant surprise to us. We thought he'd come back good and strong, but you never know. ...
BUFF BRADLEY

We just wanted to give him something easy, a chance to stretch his legs before he gets on the plane ...
BUFF BRADLEY

He doesn't normally work that fast. He's doing great.
BUFF BRADLEY

We thought this horse would run over anything. We believed he could run up I-95 or go through the sn...
BUFF BRADLEY

I figure he can give me the most insight into how to go about this.
BUFF BRADLEY

It's the chance of a lifetime. When you've got a horse like this, you've got to try.
BUFF BRADLEY

They said anything outside of 5 would be good. I think it's a good spot.
BUFF BRADLEY

When we beat Bolingbrook earlier in the year, we knew we beat a good team and that we could beat any...
BRIAN BRADLEY

When they play, they're doing all the fundamentals. And while they're doing it, they're having fun a...
BRIAN BRADLEY

They're darn good players. I'm used to playing on the varsity. They came in here and struggled in so...
BRIAN BRADLEY

God helped me, and it went in.
BRIAN BRADLEY

I think Ryan has experience, he's a good competitor. The question is can his experience and competit...
BOB BRADLEY

It was very close. The replays of the free kick seemed to indicate the ball was over the line.
BOB BRADLEY

I saw the replay on the board and from what you see it looks like he took it down and put the ball ...
BOB BRADLEY

I think you have to make it a two-way game that puts them under pressure and highlights some of the ...
BOB BRADLEY

Bruce has communicated very clearly with him. He knows it's imperative that he moves himself along.
BOB BRADLEY

After we took the lead, we had stretches where we played very well. We pushed to get a second goal t...
BOB BRADLEY

Plain and simple, when you start a season, you start with the idea that you want to win a championsh...
BOB BRADLEY

It's not just about the defenders because we must defend well as a team starting with the frontrunne...
BOB BRADLEY

In the back I hope that the addition of Claudio Suarez will help because I feel that his experience ...
BOB BRADLEY

Yeah, I saw the replay, and it was probably over the line. Anytime you see a little bit of green [be...
BOB BRADLEY

Being on the show, you get this bizarre political credibility, which is embarrassing and unearned, b...
BRADLEY WHITFORD

Life is too challenging for external rewards to sustain us.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

It's a miracle to be able make a living in a non-humiliating way as an actor.
BRADLEY WHITFORD

I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged.

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I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged.

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