Robert Brown
Robert Brown
Actor who is known for his appearances as the character M in the James Bond film franchise. He began his tenure as the character in the 1983 installment Octopussy. He, however, had first appeared as the character Admiral Hargreaves in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me.
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth23 July 1921
expand foolish glow heart lazy modes various watched
I watched my foolish heart expand / In the lazy glow of benevolence, / O'er the various modes of man's belief.
music pull takes technology time
When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug/
breaks change earth heaven house strike
When earth breaks up and heaven expands,/ How will the change strike me and you / In the house not made with hands?
fine gloss
Why should I set so fine a gloss on things?
women
Why need the other women know so much?
body edge free gets holds leaves noise soul truth
Truth that peeps / Over the glasses' edge when dinner's done, / And body gets its sop and holds its noise / And leaves soul free a little.
art learned perfection practise shall works
What's come to perfection perishes. / Things learned on earth, we shall practise in heaven. / Works done least rapidly, Art most cherishes.
gave since
What's become of Waring / Since he gave us all the slip?
alone dark god light rise shows souls sufficient
Through such souls alone / God stooping shows sufficient of His light / For us i' the dark to rise by. And I rise.
drops errors gross shines teaching though truth
Though Rome's gross yoke / Drops off, no more to be endured, / Her teaching is not so obscured / By errors and perversities, / That no truth shines athwart the lies.
fifty
With shrieking and squeaking / In fifty different sharps and flats.
clever man perhaps ready rough somewhat
You, for example, clever to a fault, / The rough and ready man that write apace, / Read somewhat seldomer, think perhaps even less.
bit dough drop quite
You drop quite a bit of dough to get to these places.
aim failed god high low
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, As God be thanked! I do not