I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.
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Related I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I tho... GRAHAM NASH Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand. DAVID SUMMERS We had a lot of possession and we created bugger all with it. GRAEME SOUNESS I know bugger all about golf. CHARLOTTE CHURCH I got my first guitar when I was 15. Danny was just a little bugger. GEORGE BAXTER The tears were there, waiting to make their escape. But she wouldn’t let them. Not this time. She ... ELAINE WHITE I always thought I was brave, but now I realize it it was only because there was never anything I re... EILEEN COOK She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was no... TONI MORRISON I get so sad that sad gets to be. So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so... TEGAN QUIN It was a minor leak, and virtually all of it has been contained. A cleanup was launched immediately,... BILL DOUGHERTY So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark thin... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE All right,” Roland said. “Rudeness is forgivable, Blaine; so I was taught in my youth, and the c... STEPHEN KING Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing w... VIRGINIA WOOLF That was so important. Against Red Bank we started slow, but I think it was because these kids had n... BOB TURCO I really enjoyed all of the unexpected special guests. I didn't know before hand which celebrities w... LAURA STANKIEWICZ I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Tool... TOBIN BELL The ref said it was a push-off. I don't really remember. There was a lot of physical hand-fighting o... MAURICE STOVALL At least when I bugger-up, I do it consistently. ASHLEY NEWELL A gun I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought. I’d spent... RICHELLE MEAD Dimitri: "Were you really going to attack all of us? Doing that...protecting her like that—it was ... RICHELLE MEAD ....let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty... ROBERT HARRIS We moved in the winter, so it was really bad. It was really depressing for me. It was really cold, a... JUNKO ABE I always like to keep one hand in the tepee and the other hand in the synagogue. Wouldn't it be ... ROBBIE ROBERTSON Fred had been getting to the basket on us all night. I was just trying to stay in front of him and c... JARED JEFFRIES I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose... MARK A. ROEDER In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all norm... JEFFREY EUGENIDES There was this one guy who used to come into this one club all the time, ... and he had these glasse... EDWARD NORTON We had a lot of trouble with that third role because I said to the studio that it was important to g... BRUCE BERESFORD I guess I felt I was lucky because history just happened to hand me all these empty niches, and it d... EDMUND WHITE All I did, I shook his hand, just said, 'Hello' and that was about it. PAUL CHRYST If there was one thing that made Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn smile more than holding a pretty woman... JINA BACARR There are people who specialise in lettering, and I've had my hand lettering made into a digital... DAVE GIBBONS All we've been hearing all week was David and Goliath. Who always won? It was David, right. David be... ERIK HANSON It was a mixed weekend for me, ... It was great on the one hand as I had a really exciting race, but... TAKUMA SATO I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening,... ADAM ARKIN So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and ... BIBLE In one instant and his life was changed forever. Because of that research I got to hold in my hand a... DON REED I'd grab his hand, and I'd say, 'Let's go, Mike, we've got to play St. Louis tonight -- that was our... JACK RILEY He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo... CHRISTINA ENGELA If there is a positive side to this, it's that the fish was floating dead. That could mean that it h... BOBBY WILSON How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I'd caused that made him that... BROCK CLARKE My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not compu... JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN We played really well. We were down in numbers because it was Russian Christmas, so we had to rely o... TJ BAILEY Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT That was quite an experience right there, ... We went to New York the year after it happened. It was... KATHY SIERRA (Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my... ARTHUR MILLER If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor... J. D. SALINGER If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor... J.D. SALINGER The fact was that, as droves of demon kings had noticed, there was a limit to what you could do to a... TERRY PRATCHETT No one could ad lib like Peter. ... You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but ... BARBARA WALTERS Guys get frustrated like Frankie did, and I understand that, ... If it had taken place out of sight,... ADRIAN BELTRE It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm o... CHARLES DICKENS I put my hand up and he took my hand. I'd never had a handshake like that one. He smiled down at me ... HELEN NILES I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety. FARIA ALAM O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there,
From me, whose love was of that dignity
That it went h... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what ... DENIS JOHNSON I didn't really realize all I was getting into. I'm pretty young for being in the Olympics in the fi... ELENA HIGHT I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, id... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was just so ready for this game. It had to come. I finally knocked down the shots and I was so hap... DANIELLE WEXLER I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some rea... GARY NUMAN I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind autom... DANIEL HANDLER It was not at all premeditated. I just started writing, and it got out of hand. ANA CASTILLO Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other... NATALIE MACMASTER And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Cor... NEIL GAIMAN His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --... TERRY PRATCHETT It was a relief to hear because I thought Peter had been very faithful to the book. ANDREW ADAMSON There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was ac... PATRICK NESS It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back agai... NEIL GAIMAN Nicole's an incredible player, ... I don't really think it surprised us that she hit it. She was act... SHERYL SWOOPES And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot." She raised her hand. "Don't." ILONA ANDREWS Here, her hand in mine was the one reality that severed us from the cold click-clack of Hell. I rubb... STEVEN L. PECK I named it Hand-In-Hand because when people work together, hand-in-hand we can all make a difference... AUSTIN WEINERMAN David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to cha... DAVID NICHOLLS We saw one piece fly off and then it all just went. Debris was going everywhere. I had never been th... DODIE DAVIDSON I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It w... DAMIAN WOETZEL No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it w... BARBARA WALTERS Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she wa... J.M. BARRIE The one thing I really lucked out on is that all through my teenage years, when my sister was a life... JENNIFER GARNER The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee). LEIGH MATTHEWS It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was as... ROBERT JAY LIFTON I was holding this thing in my hand and thinking 'Who owned this? Was it someone who lived in this h... GERALDINE BROOKS The Worcester coach called in Pat and told him to take a look at this gobby bugger he'd be playing a... ALEX SANDERSON No one could have told me it was the best thing when it first happened. Because I was very frustrate... CORY HINDEL It was a really noisy crowd and hard to concentrate. You couldn't hear yourself think. We couldn't y... CHRISTINE KESHEN That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changin... SARAH DESSEN I was so impressed with her dedication; she really wanted this thing to happen, and she made it happ... CRAIG BORDNER It was unusual on the one hand, and yet so recognizable on the other. ERIC ALBERTA I knew that one was in as soon as it left my hand. BRETT ROSS It was almost like a beaver dam, a dam that wasn't supposed to be there was all of a sudden there an... ANDREW BENNETT I went to uni because that was what was expected of me really, and all my mates were going to univer... NICK ATKINSON Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't i... L.M. MONTGOMERY All I saw was this black thing, and I couldn't understand what it was. When I hit it, I thought it s... MAX ANGELELLI Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ... LAILAH GIFTYAKITA And the point of Rachel the Film should really have been to express how awful and shitty that loss w... JESSE ANDREWS I had an amazing feeling when i finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We were talking about how we wished we had enjoyed the time, like when we were touring in that littl... FABRIZIO MORETTI One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true... DAVID ICKE It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess ... ELLEN HOPKINS
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PETER DRUCKER As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the... PETER MCWILLIAMS The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done. PETER DRUCKER Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up... PETER WASTHOLM Common Sense is in medicine the master workman. PETER LATHAM All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont... PETER CONRAD If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same. PETER GILCREST First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most... PETER MCWILLIAMS Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see t... PETER KLINE The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to asp... PETER MCWILLIAMS When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. PETER DRUCKER Education can no longer be the sole property of the state. PETER DRUCKER If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. PETER LYNCH It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know. PETER TOWNSEND A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. PETER USTINOV I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are tau... PETER USTINOV Decision making is the specific executive task. PETER DRUCKER Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed. PETER WASTHOLM However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when s... PETER QUENNELL The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance... PETER CONRAD If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else. PETER LAURENCE Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do no... PETER DRUCKER All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though ... PETER KLINE The best way to predict the future is to create it. PETER DRUCKER Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. PETER DRUCKER The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was ... PETER DRUCKER God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great bless... PETER MARSHALL Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and t... PETER TOWNSEND The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right. PETER DRUCKER