Quote by Melvyn Bragg Download Open image ““Estuary English creeps in and shows no sign of ebbing.”” — Melvyn Bragg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“The shore whispers to the sea: “Write to me what your waves struggle to say.” The sea writes in foam again and again and… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Gently, slowly, with no profane inflexions of voice, but irresistibly as though they had the headwaters of the Mississippi for their source, came this… — Franklin J. Meine Copy Share Image
“-the wind called a mordant note through the sickly trees while other less explicable sounds scraped up the beach-head toward him-waiting for the unknown… — Nick Cutter Copy Share Image
“You must know what you are fishing for and have no fear of casting out; alternatively you will just end up with whatever the… — Cynthia E. Olmedo Copy Share Image
“England was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind, with contrary… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Despite the sea being wild and the waves rolling away from the shore, the tide always returns.” — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry to go, but its alright. Rivers dry up; tides ebb; the sea goes on.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central to Labour's… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“We shall fight on the beaches,” said Churchill in 1940, “we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on the wind... Not words on… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
My memory seems to be holding on quite well. There is no reason why it shouldn't if you keep training it. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
