"One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is……" — Craig Brown
"One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun."
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Craig Brown
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57 Quotes by Craig Brown
Craig Brown has 57 quotes on this site.
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Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the…
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Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes…
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Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at…
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It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
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There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out…
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The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.
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Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only…
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Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.
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I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and…
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For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news.
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The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.
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Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something…
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More Beyond Quotes
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
— Aristotle
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Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was…
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
— Diane Ackerman
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of…
— Francis Bacon
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In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
— Christian Bale
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There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is…
— Christian Bale
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
— Ansel Adams
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
— Roseanne Barr
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families…
— Gary Bauer
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