Geoffrey Mcfall Quotes

Mr. Graven's servant had arisen, and pulled off his dirty traveling cloak, revealing a suit of fashionable grey. He whipped off his hat, and hurled it into the fire, commenting airily,

"Dashed uncomfortable thing."

Mr. Graven sighed.

"You mustn't burn my perfectly good disguises, McFall."

"Yes, sir. Never again, sir. ~ Stephen Joshua

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain. ~ Geoffrey Wood

When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists. ~ Geoffrey Nunberg

people have managed to marry without arithmetic ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

If gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust ... ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations. ~ Geoffrey Canada

In general, Americans would walk a mile uphill in the rain to avoid pain, unless the walk could be shorter and level and the day sunny, which they'd prefer. ~ Geoffrey Wood

Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me. ~ Geoffrey Rush

The reverse is a system in which you basically let people who were leaders in one way or another - people sometimes decried as party bosses, people who are part of special interests make the decision. And I think that's a worse system than the one we have. ~ Geoffrey Cowan

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater. ~ Geoffrey Rush

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

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You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient. ~ Geoffrey West

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Til that the brighte sonne loste his hewe; For th'orisonte hath reft the sonne his lyght; This is as muche to seye as it was nyght! ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from. ~ Geoffrey West

If you ask people why they move to the city, they always give the same reasons. They've come to get a job or follow their friends or to be at the center of a scene. That's why we pay the high rent. Cities are all about the people, not the infrastructure. ~ Geoffrey West

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks. ~ Geoffrey Canada

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act. ~ Geoffrey Wood

Can't I just say it's magic? - Charlie Blue ~ Geoffrey Thorne

With addiction, a client's fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana - the fear of Fear itself. ~ Geoffrey Wood

I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought I'd better start acting my age or find roles that are going to be interesting to me in the sexagenarian repertoire, because it's not what you do in your forties or fifties. ~ Geoffrey Rush

people can die of mere imagination ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to finish 24 tales before he suffered an insurmountable and permanent state of writer's block commonly known as death. ~ Jacopo Della Quercia

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy. ~ Geoffrey Rush

I need to talk to one of the Zuulaman Blood," Andulvar said.
"They are gone," Draca replied.
"From Terreille, yes. But there must be some who are demon-dead. You could arrange this."
"They are gone," she repeated. "The Dark Realm wass purged of Zuulaman Blood."
Andulvar grabbed one of the chairs that surrounded the table to keep himself upright. "You purged Hell ?"
"No."
"Then... ?"
"The Prince of the Darknesss. The High Lord of Hell." Draca stared at him. "Grief wass the hammer they ussed to break hiss control. Rage wass the forge in which he sshaped hiss power into a weapon."
"So there's no one left."
"There's no one left," Geoffrey agreed. He looked at Draca. "If Saetan did what we think he did, there isn't a shard of pottery, a scrap of cloth, or a line from a poem, story, or song left that came from the Zuulaman people. There isn't any trace of them in any of the Realms."
Including the islands they came from, Andulvar thought, feeling sick.
"It's as if they never existed," Geoffrey said. ~ Anne Bishop

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me. ~ Tom Hooper

To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship ... is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual. ~ Geoffrey Sampson

If we have meetings, I try to schedule the meetings at different restaurants I want to try - so I always suggest the restaurants. ~ Geoffrey Zakarian

Three years went by in happiness and health; He bore himself so well in peace and war That there was no one Theseus valued more. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God. ~ Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising. ~ Geoffrey Howe

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves. ~ Geoffrey Beene

There is a risk of becoming linguistically schizophrenic. Because your brain is so fluent in both languages, it is fooled into thinking that the structure you have put together in the target language is correct merely because it is correct in the source language. ~ Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown

The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned' ... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative ... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International. ~ Geoffrey K. Pullum

Maps. I was less clueless about the basics of English, though I didn't realise at the time that I was assuming that English grammar was the same as the Latin grammar I had been taught so well. (I remember that the first week I was there, a boy asked me during prep whether ager was second or third declension and I was able to tell him without pausing for thought that ager - a field - was second declension, so it went like annus, but that it dropped the "e," as opposed to agger - a rampart - which was third declension, and retained the "e." "My God," I thought as he walked away, "Captain Lancaster did a good job." My next thought was, "Lucky the boy didn't ask me what a rampart was. ... ") But given that I was teaching ten-year-olds, Geoffrey Tolson's advice to "stay a page ahead" seemed perfectly sound. So I had no reason to believe, as I strode purposefully into the classroom to teach Form III their first history ~ John Cleese

For I have seyn of a ful misty morwe Folowen ful ofte a myrie someris day. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

The two basic problems for any overarching classification scheme in it rapidly changing and complex field call be described as follows. First, any classificatory decision made now might by its nature block off valuable future developments. ~ Geoffrey C. Bowker

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it. ~ Geoffrey Rush

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work. ~ Geoffrey Blainey