quotes about Daleks

“In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.”

Source : "How Olivia Colman, star of Peep Show and The Iron Lady, made the big time". Interview with Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.

“The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.”

“I don’t want to be like her, like Vivian. I don’t want to hurt anyone. Am I going to hurt people?” “No one can make you do that, child. You are caught between two worlds, much like my own Lend. You will want the fire, you will want to be filled. It is your nature. I hope you do not fall, but she is much stronger than you are.” She smiled at me, reaching out as though she would wipe away my tears. “Cling to what is good in your life. Be good to my son.”

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

“All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.”

“So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.”

“I jumped up in the bubble, yo kid where are you? (114 between Manhattan and Morningside Avenue) This happened just right out the blue”

“I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...”

“A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited.”

“I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.”