Famous quotes containing the words stanley, baldwin, prime and/or minister:
“Ive tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. Id rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them as excellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But Im sure I have contributed to false valuesas Stanley Woodward said, Godding up those ballplayers.
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
“The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.”
—James Baldwin (19241987)
“One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“But, my dear, you cannot live in isolation from the human race, you know.”
—John Clifford, U.S. screenwriter, and Herk Harvey. Minister (Stan Levitt)