B. Priestley
B. Priestley
race needs pressure
Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.
norwich old-places sensible
What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
behind-you faces behinds
To put failure behind you, face up to it.
teach one-thing
To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
mind magic cold
A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.
writing hair play
Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.
voice faces grumbling
I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.
body responsible members
We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.
soccer football player
Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.
husband women wife
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
church england ends
It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
letting-go children imagination
Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
philosophy character civilization
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.
understanding one-day demand
In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.