A Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

Raids are slightly constipating.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Elizabeth Bowen
Irish - Novelist
June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973

During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen.

George Orwell

No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.

James Bovard

All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.

Emmy Rossum

I'm slightly controlling. I'm an Aries and I like things to have an order. I get slightly disturbed and I get slightly distressed and flustered if things go awry.

Mandy Moore

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Herbert Hoover

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

David Tennant

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.

David Tennant

My parents were born in the 1930s, and they experienced the air raids on Tokyo.

Hideo Kojima

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

Adam Brody

When I first became a journalist, people said, 'Oh, that must be interesting.' They saw it as slightly glamorous, slightly edgy. They wanted to know more.

Fiona Barton

You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed, or you've pandered to a slightly stupider audience, then you've spoiled it for the people who are even slightly smart.

Ben Wheatley

If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.

Anand Gopal

So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.

James Stockdale

But I have on occasion suddenly realised that some men feel slightly threatened by, or slightly baffled by, or confused by, possibly even now, by having a woman in... a very powerful role.

Cressida Dick

It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.

C.P. Snow

In terms of the production company, my brother and I are very drawn toward projects that do feel slightly outside the box. And at the same time are accessible enough that they could draw a slightly wider audience.

Dave Franco

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