Quotes About Alfred

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

The man who upsets the morphology of society is a cancer. The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

It was necessary for Yeovil to re-establish control or effect a compromise.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

871-900. Reign of Alfred in England. After a long and varied struggle, he rescues England from the Danish invaders.

As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

Pity, mercy, compassion. Thats's all I'm afraid, said Alfred. That is everything, said the phantasm.

My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.

Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in the mid-'50s that it came back. Someone had thought of it 30 or 40 years earlier named Alfred Wegener, and he never got to see it come back.

A comforting sentiment, sir." Alfred took Bruce's empty tea cup from him. "One likes to think that Miss Doyle would agree.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

I hated Alfred. He was a miserable, pious, tight-fisted king who distrusted me because I was no Christian, because I was a northerner, and because I had given him his kingdom back at Ethandun. And as reward he had given me Fifhaden. Bastard.

Who speaks well ... fights well,' goes the song; she'd wage war with her voice instead. 'To fight well, speak well,' Alfred said.

The gods are capricious, and I was about to amuse them. And Alfred was right. I was a fool.

This isn't just a war over land, it's a war about God. And Alfred...is Christ's servant...

Seven kings will die, she had said, seven kings and the women you love. And Alfred's son will not rule and Wessex will die and the Saxon will kill what he loves and the Danes will gain everything, and all will change and all will be the same.