Rathbone Quotes

Everyday we have to go to classroom 107A, where portions of English, math and social studies are meted out like different nutrients of a hospital diet. ~ Emma Rathbone

I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee. ~ Jackson Rathbone

I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face. ~ Jackson Rathbone

General Dempsy despaired. The prophecies were impossible to argue since no proof could be offered to discredit them. They were sacred and above reproach. ~ Brian Rathbone

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset. ~ Pete Townshend

Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented. ~ Nikki Reed

I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid. ~ Jackson Rathbone

My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in the morning. They would use a cattle prod and just shock me, or throw boiling water on me, or fire a gun next to my head, to get me out of bed. ~ Jackson Rathbone

I read it over and over again. I turned it over, turned it back, smoothed it out on my pillow and then read it some more. It was written on a piece of torn-out spiral notebook paper. It had seams like it had been folded and unfolded a few times. I looked into the manila envelope again to see if there was anything else. There wasn't. ~ Emma Rathbone

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much. ~ Basil Rathbone

We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards. ~ Nina Tassler

In the absence of drive and purpose, talent can remain forever undiscovered ~ Brian Rathbone

Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED ~ William Rathbone Greg

The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians. ~ Eleanor Rathbone

All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel. ~ William Rathbone Greg

I usually sleep just a few hours a night. ~ Jackson Rathbone

Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses. ~ Eleanor Rathbone

Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own. ~ Eleanor Rathbone

That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house ... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films. ~ Cate Blanchett

Fanaticism is a plague. It threatens the fabric of our world and must be stopped regardless of the cost. ~ Brian Rathbone

Evil exists only in the hearts of men. ~ Brian Rathbone

Sometimes the spirit knows things that the mind cannot; never ignore the urgings of your spirit. ~ Brian Rathbone

What goes up must come down, unless a dragon eats it. ~ Brian Rathbone

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use. ~ Jackson Rathbone

The souls of heroes are forged by the gods and tempered with the pain of life. ~ Brian Rathbone

If you wish the devout to ingest poison, wrap it in pomp and seal it with ideology. ~ Brian Rathbone

The explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone. ~ Eleanor Rathbone

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity. ~ Brian Rathbone

I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots. ~ Jackson Rathbone

It's not exactly that I can't stay in one place. It's that if I'm in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room! ~ Jackson Rathbone

Jackson Rathbone - he is a prankster. Constantly scaring people from behind, stuff like that. ~ Michael Welch

Lust tastes like tequila and love tastes like whiskey. Love burns for longer and warms you up on the inside and sometimes it makes you do stupid things. Tequila makes you wasted. You can get wasted on lust and warmed by love. ~ Jackson Rathbone

Procrastination robs the world of countless treasures. ~ Brian Rathbone

Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home. ~ Brian Rathbone

Jackson [Rathbone], who plays Jasper Cullen. He's such a mysterious kid. I've been friends with him for a long time, and I still don't get him, and I don't think he gets himself! He's really friendly, but there's this mystery about him and he's talented in so many ways. It's too much talent for one person. He reminds me of a vampire. ~ Kellan Lutz

Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities. ~ Brian Rathbone

I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration as the economic status of the family - of its members in relation to each other and of the whole unit in relation to the other units of which the community is made up. ~ Eleanor Rathbone

This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity. ~ Brian Rathbone

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people. ~ Basil Rathbone

I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston. ~ John Logan

Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me. ~ Stephenie Meyer

I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It'd be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life! ~ Jackson Rathbone

Darkness, no matter how powerful it may seem, can be driven back by the tiniest spark. ~ Brian Rathbone

Kindness, unlike most things, becomes greater when it is given away. ~ Brian Rathbone

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed. ~ Brian Rathbone

I'm all about nightlife. I live during the night. ~ Jackson Rathbone

Much the same may be said of his ancestry and family connections. ~ Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood