Blow Quote by Peter Ustinov

“If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.”

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Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

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There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but…

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Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love…

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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

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I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.

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I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

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That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

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A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

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Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've…

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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

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