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# Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (October 1, 1790 – July 12, 1846) was an English evangelical Protestant writer and novelist who wrote as Charlotte Elizabeth.

## Quotes

* There is an immeasurable distance between submission to the cross and acceptance of it.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 170.

## External links

* Works by Charlotte Elizabeth at Project Gutenberg
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Charlotte Higgins

Charlotte Higgins, FSA (born 6 September 1972) is a British writer and journalist.

## Quotes

* If the prevailing feeling is that Latin and Greek are for toffs, then Boris [Johnson], frankly, is not the man to dispel that notion.
** "A classic toff", The Guardian (6 June 2008)
* In north Staffordshire, it is perfectly acceptable, indeed polite social practice, to turn over a plate and inspect the backstamp if you are eating at a friend’s house. Because Stoke has historically had a rather stable, immobile population, memories are long and the tentacular reach of families into the pottery industry goes back generations.
** "In the bleak Midwinter", New Statesman (15 January 2009)
** Higgins was born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent.
* The classics and class have always been ­uncomfortably linked. In this country's education system, knowledge of the classics was traditionally the gatekeeper of privilege. If you ­acquired the classics (even as a humble stonemason's son, like Thomas Hardy) you gained a passport to the establishment. Fail (like Hardy's character Jude) and the corridors of power remained out of reach.
** "By academia or tweet, the classics for all", The Guardian (29 April 2009)
* The wording chills me slightly, with its suggestion of a regular consignment of Eton scholars as if by a law of nature.
* But "the classics" are so much more than this careless and aggressive chucking around of Latin and Greek tags, as if they were bread rolls at a Bullingdon club dinner.
** "Boris Johnson's love of classics is about just one thing: himself", The Guardian (6 October 2019)
** Classicist Oswyn Murray, a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, had said of Johnson (to Higgins): "Probably the worst scholar Eton ever sent us – a buffoon and an idler".
* I love the British Museum, despite everything. I have had my eyes opened, my imagination set on fire, my intellect challenged by it too many times to mention. ... A fortnight ago, I stopped by to admire the beauty of the Parthenon sculptures, the galloping horsemen and reclining gods innocent of their role in a diplomatic feud. The museum was full of schoolchildren. The place was vibrating with the energy and excitement that comes from the encounter with glorious, awe-inspiring objects. But taking £50m from a polluter? It fills my heart with dread that the museum should take so wrong a turn.
** "I love the British Museum, but what I've learned about the depth of its crisis fills me with dread", The Guardian (21 December 2023)
** See also Parthenon Frieze. For the "diplomatic feud", see a November 2023 BBC News item. The reference to "a polluter" concerns the Museum's announcement of a sponsorship deal with BP (formerly known as British Petroleum) which will last for 10-years during the institution's £1 billion refurbishment.
# Charlotte Ivers

Charlotte Ivers (born 1 March 1995) is a British journalist. She is a political correspondent for Times Radio and a columnist for The Sunday Times.

## Quotes

* I grew up a somewhere. Now I am an anywhere. Sometimes that disconnect gives me a rootless feeling: an odd vertigo I can't quite nail down. There is, of course, another phrase for it: liberal metropolitan elite. Nobody who has heard the vicious punishments an Ivers government would hand out to people who drive motorbikes without silencers would describe me as liberal. And I suspect actual elites have functioning kettles.
** "I'm 28 and I don't own a kettle. What does this say about me?", The Sunday Times (15 April 2023).
* It is hard to be a conspiracy theorist as a political journalist. Spend enough time staring into the heart of the institutions that run this country, and talking to the people who run those institutions, and the idea that any of them would be capable of pulling off an elaborate masterplan of the type espoused by the crankier parts of the internet becomes laughable.
** "How Westminster Works by Ian Dunt — it’s cock-up, not conspiracy", The Sunday Times (16 April 2023).
# Charlotte's Web (book)

Charlotte's Web is an award-winning children's book by acclaimed American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from the slaughterhouse by an intelligent spider named Charlotte. First published in 1952, the book was illustrated by Garth Williams.

## Quotes

* The song sparrow, who knows how brief and lovely life is, says, "Sweet, sweet, sweet interlude; sweet, sweet, sweet interlude."
** Ch. 6
* Never hurry and never worry!
** Ch. 9
* People believe almost anything they see in print.
** Ch. 12
* "Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you." "You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing."
** Ch. 21
* After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
** Ch. 21
* It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.
** Ch. 22
* None of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
** Ch. 22

## Quotes about Charlotte's Web

* The ending is as beautiful, bold and full of integrity as Charlotte herself.
** Lucy Mangan, "Book corner" in The Guardian (11 April 2009)

## See also

* Charlotte's Web (1973 film)
* Charlotte's Web (2006 film)

## External links

* Charlotte's Web Summary
* Charlotte's Web character profile
# Charlotte Elliott

Charlotte Elliott (March 18, 1789 – September 22, 1871) was an English poet and hymn writer.

## Quotes
### Hours of Sorrow (1836)

    Hours of Sorrow; or, Thoughts in Verse, Chiefly Adapted to Seasons of Sickness, Depression, and Bereavement (James Nisbet and Co., 1836)
* My God! is any hour so sweet, From blush of morn to evening-star, As that which calls me to Thy feet,— The hour of prayer?
** "The Hour of Prayer", st. 1, p. 45.
* Lord! till I reach yon blissful shore, No privilege so dear shall be, As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to Thee.
** "The Hour of Prayer", st. 7, p. 46.
* Renew my will from day to day! Blend it with Thine! and take away All that now makes it hard to say, "Thy will be done!"
** "Thy Will Be Done", st. 7, p. 131.
* Blest is my lot, whate'er befall: What can disturb me, who appall, While, as my strength, my rock, my all, Saviour! I cling to Thee?
** "Prayer to the Saviour", st. 9, p. 133.

### Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott (1873)

    Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1873)
* Just as I am — Thou wilt receive, Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve, Because Thy promise I believe— O Lamb of God, I come!
** "Just as I Am", st. 5, p. v.
* From human eyes 'tis better to conceal Much that I suffer, much I hourly feel; But oh, this thought can tranquillise and heal, All, all is known to Thee.
** "Thou God Seest Me", st. 2, p. 215.
* Nay, all by Thee is ordered, chosen, planned, Each drop that fills my daily cup, Thy hand Prescribes for ills none else can understand, All, all is known to Thee.
** "Thou God Seest Me", st. 5, p. 215.

### Leaves from the Unpublished Journals, Letters, and Poems (1874)

    Leaves from the Unpublished Journals, Letters, and Poems of Charlotte Elliott (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1874)
* Is life's evening long and dreary? Gone the treasures once possessed? Is thy spirit faint and weary? Dost thou long to be at rest? On this sweet promise fix thy sight: "At evening time it shall be light."
** "Lines for the Aged", st. 1, p. 199.
* I saw the radiant Queen of Night Walking in brightness through the sky.
** "The Setting Moon", line 1, p. 232.
# David Miedzianik

David Christopher Miedzianik (born 24 July 1956) is a British autistic poet and author.

## Quotes
### My Autobiography

Quoted in Grandin, Temple. "Needs of High Functioning Teenagers and Adults with Autism" (April 1990) Available Online
* Living is more or less a constant bore.

### Autism: a life history approach

Quoted in Croskin, Sarah. "Autism: a life history approach" (1 March 1997) Available Online
* Well, there’s one thing if I’d had a job all these years, I no doubt wouldn’t have been on Yorkshire TV’s Against All Odds programme. I wouldn’t have been on Radio 4 talking about my poems.

### A Season of Changes

Quoted in Rowe, Howard. "A Season of Changes" (1997)
* Once I dreamed I'd write songs.

## External links

* Authority control: LCCN: nb2018023194 | VIAF: 7624154387123330970007 | WorldCat
# David Medalla

David Medalla (born 1942) is a Filipino international artist. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art. He lives and works in London, New York City and Paris.

## Quotes

* All my work is informed by personal experience. It is the seed to which I apply a transcendent dialogue. The idea for my first bubble machine was rooted in a complex combination of many memories. During the Second World War I was in my sister’s arms when I saw a young Filipino guerrilla shot by a Japanese soldier. The young guerrilla ran into our garden. The sight of him lying there dying, red blood bubbles foaming from his mouth, made a strong impression on me. Flying over the Grand Canyon on my first trip to America, visiting a soap factory at the bottom of Notre Dame de la Garde in Marseilles, a visit to a brewery in Edinburgh in Scotland: these left deep impressions as well. My mother cooking “guinataan”, a Philippine dessert made of coconut milk and tropical fruit, and the movement of clouds over Manila Bay near where I was born, inspired me to create a work of art that would express and embody the motion of clouds.
** In: Adam Nankervis, "A Stitch in time," in: Mousse Magazine.it, Issue 29, 2015
* In the 1960s the works of Takis and Tinguely were experiments with different forces, both magnetic and kinetic. My work differed from theirs, for although my kinetic art works used machines, the works themselves moved in random organic ways and avoided the monotonous repetitive movements of most machines. My land art projects and all the rest of my cosmic propulsions were born out of the organic and my relation with the dynamics of nature. When I first exhibited with Liliane Lijn at the Indica Gallery in London in 1967 I called my artworks bio-kinetic sculptures. Some of my artworks in that show are featured in the film I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname by the English director Michael Winner.
** In: Adam Nankervis, "A Stitch in time," in: Mousse Magazine.it, Issue 29, 2015
# David McCullough

David Gaub McCullough (7 July 1933 – 7 August 2022) was an American author, narrator, popular historian, and lecturer. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest civilian awards.

## Quotes

* Novelists talk about their characters starting to do things they didn’t expect them to. Well, I imagine every writer of biography or history, as well as fiction, has the experience of suddenly seeing a few pieces of the puzzle fit together. The chances of finding a new piece are fairly remote — though I’ve never written a book where I didn’t find something new — but it’s more likely you see something that’s been around a long time that others haven’t seen. Sometimes it derives from your own nature, your own interests. More often, it’s just that nobody bothered to look closely enough.
** As quoted in "David McCullough, The Art of Biography No. 2" by Elizabeth Gaffney & Benjamin Ryder Howe, in The Paris Review, Issue 152 (Fall 1999)
* On July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, another American born and raised in southwestern Ohio, stepped onto the moon, he carried with him, in tribute to the Wright brothers, a small swatch of the muslin from a wing of their 1903 Flyer.
** The Wright Brothers (2015), Epilogue

## Disputed

* Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

## External links

* David McCullough at Simon & Schuster
* In Depth interview with McCullough, December 2, 2001
* David McCullough on IMDb
* Speech Transcript: "Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are" at Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar on the topic, "American History and America's Future."
# David Mitchell (comedian)

David James Stuart Mitchell (born 14 July 1974) is an English comedian, actor, and writer.

## Quotes

* I doubt religion is responsible for as much death as is claimed. Some people love to fight and steal and dominate – that's the key. There are arseholes among us and, given half a chance, they're going to start some sort of trouble out of ruthless self-interest or bloodlust or both. The prevailing ethos of any surrounding society is almost always that you're not supposed to kill people without a good reason, or at least some sort of reason. But the arseholes are clever, so they come up with reasons. To deeply religious societies, religious differences sound like a very convincing reason to kill people. But that doesn't mean the killing wouldn't have been happening anyway.
** Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens (2023), pp. 31-32
* The world has never been fair, and cannot be made fair, and claims that it can are foolish or dishonest. It can be made fairer and attempts to make it less fair can be resisted. Optimistic realists seek improvement, not perfection.
** Unruly pp. 120-121
* Dying was by far the most astute and successful thing King John did in his entire reign.
** Unruly p. 219
* Their certainty that they were right is worth remembering because it means there's probably stuff we're certain is right that future ages will correctly judge to be monstrous. The fact that everybody is convinced of something is no guarantee that it isn't evil horseshit.
** Unruly p. 232
* Trusting the state doesn't make it more trustworthy.
** Unruly p. 283
* Once a line of succession becomes open to different interpretations, it has ceased to function.
** Unruly p. 297
* The fine constitutional principles we have inherited from Magna Carta and parliament started off as the mere rhetorical perfume the barons doused themselves in to cover the stench of their own treachery. ... Fondness may be a more appropriate thing to feel about them than pride.
** Unruly p. 399
# David Brion Davis

David Brion Davis (February 16, 1927 – April 14, 2019) was an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, and founder and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

## Quotes

* Writing home in 1946, he told his parents that he wanted to study history because he hoped that a knowledge of the past might “make people stop and think before blindly following some bigoted group to make the world safe for Aryans, Democrats or Mississippians.”
* Nothing is proved by the expectation of some Northerners that the clause would eventually put an end to slavery, for there was widespread confusion of "slavery" with the "slave trade." Both American and British abolitionists assumed that an end to slave imports would lead automatically to the amelioration and gradual abolition of slavery.
** The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, page 129.
* One cannot question the genuineness of Jefferson’s liberal dreams. He was one of the first statesmen in any part of the world to advocate concrete measures for restricting and eradicating Negro slavery.
** As quoted in The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson, by Henry Wiencek, Smithsonian Magazine, (October 2012)

## Quotes about Davis

* The historian Eric Foner said of him, “No one did more to inspire the revolution in historical understanding that places slavery at the center of American history and indeed the history of the West.”
# David Brinkley

David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on election-night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

## Quotes

* The one function that T.V. news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
** as cited in One Man's America (2008), George F. Will, Random House, p. 118 (Chapter 15, Lingerie and Duct Tape) : ISBN 9780307407863
* Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
** as cited in Great Political Wit: laughing (almost) all the way to the White House (2000), Bob Dole, Random House, p. 89 : ISBN 0767906675
* [Bill Clinton] has not a creative bone in his body. Therefore he is a bore and will always be a bore.
# David Bryant (bowls)

David John Bryant CBE (born 27 October 1931 – 27 August 2020) was a three-time World (outdoors) singles bowls champion (in 1966, 1980 and 1988) and also a three-time World indoors singles champion (in 1979, 1980 and 1981).

## Quotes

* I'm not an athlete, more a gymnast and golfer, soldered together.
** Quoted in Colin Jarman's The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990)
* Bowls is a young man's game which old men can play.
** Quoted in Colin Jarman's The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990)
# David Bossie

David Norman Bossie (November 1, 1965–) is an American political activist. Since 2000, he has been president and chairman of conservative advocacy group Citizens United and in 2016, Bossie was the deputy campaign manager to the Donald Trump presidential campaign.

## Quotes

* I say to those liberals hell-bent on restricting speech: rather than trying to silence voices and viewpoints you disagree with, join the debate.
** Free Speech Is Winning, Thanks to Citizens United (August 30,2014)
* Citizens United has a policy for ISIS and it’s quite simple: Acknowledge it; confront it; and destroy it. By any means necessary, wherever they are in the world. For the sake of future generations, we need to handle this problem without delay before it gets any larger, because right now it’s a cancer that is growing.
** 9/11: Our Yearly Reminder (September 11, 2015)
* Donald Trump is right. We are at war and our homeland security and immigration policies are a complete mess. The Syrian refugee issue and the Islamic terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino have kick-started a much needed debate and have brought some alarming information to the American people. It starts with basic government incompetence and the suffocating PC culture that Republican and Democrat establishment leaders are slaves to along with the liberal media.
** Conservatives Should Think Bigger On Immigration Ban (December 11, 2015)
# David Buss

David M. Buss (born April 14, 1953) is an American psychologist, and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, known for his evolutionary psychology research on human sex differences in mate selection.

## Quotes

“The intensity of love a man feels for a woman is often mirrored in the intensity of his homicidal thoughts” - The Murderer Next Door
“Beauty is in the adaptations of the beholder.” - The Murderer Next Door
* The huge human brain, approximately 1,350 cubic centimeters, is the most complex organic structure in the known world. Understanding the human mind/brain mechanisms in evolutionary perspective is the goal of the new scientific discipline called evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology focuses on four key questions: (1) Why is the mind designed the way it is—that is, what causal processes created, fashioned, or shaped the human mind into its current form? (2) How is the human mind designed—what are its mechanisms or component parts, and how are they organized? (3) What are the functions of the component parts and their organized structure—that is, what is the mind designed to do? (4) How does input from the current environment interact with the design of the human mind to produce observable behavior?
** Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (6th ed., 2019), Chap. 1: The Scientific Movements Leading to Evolutionary Psychology