Sir Ernest Macmillan

Famous quotes containing the words sir, ernest and/or macmillan:

    “Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.”
    —Robin, Sir Day (b. 1915)

    “O, there’s a wind a-blowing, a-blowing from the west,
    And that of all the winds is the one I like the best,
    For it blows at our backs, and it shakes our pennon free,
    And it soon will blow us home to the old countrie.”
    —William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

    “Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.”
    —Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)