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Nigel Rees Inspirational Quotes (10)
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I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.
Nigel Rees
People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.
Nigel Rees
I was broadcast-struck from an early age I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
Nigel Rees
I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.
Nigel Rees
I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.
Nigel Rees
Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.
Nigel Rees
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
Nigel Rees
Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.
Nigel Rees
Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.
Nigel Rees
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
Nigel Rees