Ability Quote by Alexander Woollcott Download Open image “The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.” — Alexander Woollcott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ability Calm Extraordinary Flying Peace
The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis. — Franklin P. Jones Copy Share Image
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. — Pappy Boyington Copy Share Image
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world! — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them. — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the… — Pierre Daninos Copy Share Image
Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in… — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking... — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
“the importance of ability. The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
