A Quote by Craig Brown

It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril. — © Craig Brown
It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.
Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
At 'The West Wing,' I cast newscasters, and when you put out a casting call for actors, half of the people who come in are real local L.A. newscasters. Each time, I ended up hiring one of them, because they're better at it. Big surprise! A newscaster is better at playing a newscaster than an actor is.
There's a scene where Diana is having her first dinner at Balmoral, my first big scene with everyone. I didn't really know anyone super well at that point. I had this big story to tell about hunting, a real tongue twister. And I just couldn't say it.
I look up spells for the heck of it. I haven't done any spells but I don't think that they wouldn't work.
Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl's mouth!
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
As an actor you have good spells and bad spells.
The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.
If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.
Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.
You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.
We're losing ground. This planet is losing ground. So things need to happen and they need to happen quick. Our message should be-loud and clear-there comes a time when the home needs protecting and the line needs drawing and anybody that dares cross it acts at their own peril.
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