“Tonight's viewing has more Box Office appeal than a Baz Luhrmann masterpiece”
Simon Hill (1967) Australian television presenter
31st of November, 2008, Premier League coverage Foxsports
Quotes from His time at Foxsports
Saturday Evening Post (February 1980)
Context: I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.
“Tonight's viewing has more Box Office appeal than a Baz Luhrmann masterpiece”
Simon Hill (1967) Australian television presenter
31st of November, 2008, Premier League coverage Foxsports
Quotes from His time at Foxsports
Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist
Variant: Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603
The Golden Speech (1601)
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
Context: I won't open boxes
That I am told not to.
I'm not a Pandora.
I'm much more like
That girl in the mirror.
Between you and me
She don't stand a chance of getting anywhere at all.
“I exhaust myself terribly to content the world, and never manage to content myself.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) French painter
Quote of Boudin's note, c. 1890; as cited in G. Jean-Aubry & Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1968, p. 115
1880s - 1890s