Austin Freeman Quotes

The tone of his remarks filled me with a burning desire to kick Mr. Horridge; but that being impracticable, I should certainly, if left to myself, have told him to go to the devil and forthwith walked out of the house. ~ R. Austin Freeman

Life is made up of strange coincidences," said Thorndyke. "Nobody but a reviewer of novels is ever really surprised at a coincidence. ~ R. Austin Freeman

For a good many years now I have practised at the bar; and, if that fact offers no guarantee of unimpeachable veracity it at least furnishes presumptive evidence of a fairly robust moral epidermis. I may not be believed; but the frankest scepticism will leave me undisturbed and unabashed. ~ R. Austin Freeman

If a man acts in such a way as to create a belief that he is dead, he must put up with the consequences. ~ R. Austin Freeman

Thorndyke never forgets a likely case. He is sort of a medico-legal camel. He gulps down the raw facts from the newspapers or elsewhere, and then, in his leisure moments, he calmly regurgitates them and has a quiet chew at them. ~ R. Austin Freeman

It signifies that the great judge of the dead looks down on men to see that justice is done and that truth prevails. So I commend you to the good Osiris; ~ R. Austin Freeman

Now Thorndyke is going to enjoy himself. To him a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy forever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery. ~ R. Austin Freeman

It was in a large window--a sort of hybrid between a shop and a private house--and consisted of a hand-written placard executed in bold Roman capitals announcing that these premises were occupied by no less a person than Professor Booley, late of Boston, U.S.A. (popularly believed to be the hub of the universe). ~ R. Austin Freeman

We are a stoic, reserved bunch who hide our emotions well - except when reading a terribly sad or poignant story, of course. I have been known to sob aloud at a tragic ending. ~ Lynn Austin

It's raining outside. How did you get here? And how did you get to be twenty-eight? ~ Austin Grossman

I determine to offer a challenge toward transformation. For most confessions, this is as simple as asking, "So what are you going to do differently?" The question lifts the weight off my shoulders and forces the person to move forward, resisting the easy comfort of having spoken the confession. The person could, of course, dissolve into excuses, but at that point the weight of that decision belongs to them, not to me. ~ Austin Channing Brown

I'm very proud of 'The Office' - it was one of the best things I'll ever do. But you do become a slight victim of your own success in the sense that people think that's you, that's what you are, and that's what you'll play forever. ~ Martin Freeman

Our life hacks include finding a cohort, a girlfriend, an ally - someone who is safe. Someone to have lunch with who doesn't need an explanation of our being. ~ Austin Channing Brown

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge. ~ Samuel Rutherford

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. ~ Morgan Freeman

A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing. ~ Brian Austin Green

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. ~ James Freeman Clarke

I used to go on all these blogs and all these websites which I really don't like to go and read about at all, and I couldn't care less anymore. ~ Coco Austin

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things. ~ Martin Freeman

YI teamed up with the Allstate Foundation to basically inform teens why it's important to drive safe. I feel I'm new on the road, so it's important to do these three main things: The first one is buckle up, the second one is slow down, don't speed, and the third one is don't let your friends distract you in the car. ~ Austin Mahone

Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet. ~ Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Whenever you're at a loss for what move to make next, just ask yourself, What would make a betterstory? ~ Austin Kleon

It's work to be the only person of color in an organization, bearing the weight of all your white co-workers questions about Blackness. It's work to always be hypervisible because of your skim - easily identified as being present or absent - but for your needs to be completely invisible to those around you. It's work to do the emotional labor or pointing out problematic racist thinking, policies, actions, and statements while desperately trying to avoid bitterness and cynicism. ~ Austin Channing Brown

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are. ~ Cathy Freeman

Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is. ~ Morgan Freeman

I love you Austin, and I'm not gonna stop begging until you tell me you love me too." Michaels ~ A.E. Via

You are more than entitled not to know what the word 'performative' means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it doesnot mean anything very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its favor, it is not a profound word. ~ J.L. Austin

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession. ~ Austin Phelps

The debacle of European pacifism has at least one clear lesson to teach us: pacifists, if they are to be effective in the modern world, must be as wholehearted and as brave as Gandhi. ~ Freeman Dyson

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions. ~ Lucy Freeman

Small acts of persuasion matter, because there is much less distance between people's beliefs than we often suppose. We easily confuse the distance between people's political positions with the intensity of their convictions about them. It is entirely possible for people to become sharply divided, even hostile, , over relatively minor disagreements. Americans have fought epic political battles over things like baking wedding cakes and kneeling during the national anthem. And we once fought a shooting war over a whiskey tax of ten cents per gallon. The ferocity of these battles has nothing to do with the actual distance between different positions, which, when compared to the entire range of opinions possible in the world, is almost negligible.

None of this means that we can persuade our opponents easily. Persuading people to change their minds is excruciatingly difficult. It doesn't always work, and it rarely works the way we think it will. But it does work, and the fact that it works makes it possible for us to have a democracy. ~ Michael Austin

In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets 'Tis to show her new collar; In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar! ~ Henry Austin Dobson

Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes. ~ Mary Hunter Austin

Even through my good-looking youth, I wasn't called on for any romantic parts, which is okay. What I was called on to do, I enjoyed doing. The funny thing about life is that if you live long enough, I think, you'll get every wish you ever had. It'll all come true. ~ Morgan Freeman

Contentment is nothing more than a complete absence of judgment and resistance to what is. ~ Maximus Freeman

The last sort of really low-key race I ran, I realized with about a hundred metres to go, that my heart just wasn't in it. I wasn't trying my hardest, I didn't care to compete against the girls I was up against. That spoke a lot about where my heart was taking me-which was off the track. ~ Cathy Freeman

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. ~ Freeman Dyson

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere. ~ Austin Stowell

Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering. ~ Kane Freeman

To be heartbroken means to have a story ~ Austin Wright

Man is not himself only ... He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources ... He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys. ~ Mary Hunter Austin

If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first. ~ Austin Kleon

My money's on the big Indian,' someone was saying. I peeked up to see that Tyler, Mike, Austin and Ben had there heads bent together, deep in conversation. 'Yeah,' Mike whispered. 'Did you see the size of that Jacob kid? I think he could take Cullen down.' Mike seemed pleased by the idea. ~ Stephenie Meyer

Throughout the ages advanced souls have yearned for a society in which liberty and justice prevail. Men have sought for it, fought for it, have died for it. Ancient freemen prized it; slaves longed for it; the Magna Charta demanded it; the Constitution of the United States declared it. ~ David O. McKay

These hiding places may have been helping you cope, but they are not who you are.
These good girl voices challenge your identity. ~ Emily P. Freeman

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true ~ Freeman Dyson

I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini. ~ Martin Freeman

If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space. ~ Morgan Freeman

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath. ~ Austin O'Malley

'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but I started writing scripts after that. That's what got me into writing. ~ Jake T. Austin

I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other. ~ Martin Freeman

I can't stop and all I have is a word addiction. Conjunction-Junction really fucked me up as a kid. This is all childhood trauma that's manifesting itself in word needles and I can't find enough good veins. ~ Jesse James Freeman

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma. ~ Cathy Freeman

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors. ~ Samuel Freeman Miller