Quite Quotes

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there.

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.

I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.