top of page

"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Press quotes

"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."

"They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press."

"Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference."

"We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us."

"You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying."

"What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others."
Explore more quotes by T. E. Lawrence


"Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch."


"It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed."


"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor."


"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven."


"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."


"Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression."


"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."
bottom of page