
Previous Quotes of the Week
Where we live on the Earth is
at the concent of geology,
but this concent can be withdrawn
at any time.
Radio 4 correspondent
16th January, 2005
Why procrastinate today when you can put it off until tomorrow?
Natham Rumbold
30th January, 2005
Doctor : We all must face reality sooner or later.
Elwood Dowde : Ah ha. Well, I wrested with reality for 35 years doctor,
and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
James Stewart - "Harvey"
7th February, 2005
On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty
can run for about fifty miles more if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
Hunter S Thompson
14th February, 2005
I've got to the age now where the only things I'm proud of
are my mistakes.
Robert Altman
19th February, 2005
I've got a step ladder.
It's a nice step ladder,
But sometimes.....
sometimes.....
I wish I'd known my real ladder.
Letter to Radio 2
5th March, 2005
His house was full of creatures he studied.
His children thought this was how everybody lived.
When they visited friends, one asked:
"And where does your Daddy keep his barnacles?"
Article about Charles Darwin
15th March, 2005
When two people meet there are really six people in the room;
themselves as they see themselves,
themselves as the other sees them
and themselves as they really are.
William James
13th April, 2005
Take me to the horizon.
Captain Jack Sparrow
23rd April, 2005
If a man is alone in a forest
with no woman to hear him;
is he still a bastard?
Dylan Sunter
4th May, 2005
Time is an illusion.
Lunchtime doubly so.
Ford Prefect
12th May, 2005
Be a realist;
Demand the impossible.
Che Guevara
28th May, 2005
Mae : I used to be ashamed of myself.
Interviewer : You mean you reformed?
Mae : No - I just got over being ashamed.
Mae West
3rd July, 2005
This was a day they would never forget;
Not even if someone erased their minds with tiny rubbers.
The Day Today
4th August, 2005
If the angel decides to come it will be
because you have convinced her, not by tears, but by your humble resolve
to be always beginning, to be a beginner.
Rilke - suggested by Elizabeth Bardsley
12th September, 2005
The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
4th October, 2005
Keep an angel on your shoulder.
Never throw your dreams away
For they may save your life
One day.
Tom Russell
31st October, 2005
The climate of Edinburgh is such that the weak succumb young.....
and the strong envy them.
Dr Johnson
8th November,2005
Sometimes......sometimes.....
You've just got to do something bad...
Just to know that you're still alive.
Chris the DJ in Northern Exposure
20th November, 2005
At any moment during a twenty-four-hour day, only one-third of the people in the world are asleep.
The other two-thirds are awake and creating problems.
Admiral Hyman Rickover - suggested by Robert Rickover
26th November, 2005
They're nice people to be in goal with, the British.
Russell Braddon - The Naked Island.
3rd December, 2005
I gave up smoking and drinking in 1969.
It was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
George Best
15th December, 2005
A goldfish starts every move by turning its head in the direction it wants to go.
If you want speed and balance, use your head to start the turn.
Kancho - aikido master.
22nd December, 2005
Keep Ithaka always in your mind,
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But don't hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you're old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with what you've gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvellous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
C.P.Cavafy
6th January, 2006
She was humming something in her high nasal hum, faint evocation of summer bees.
The coals chuckled, settled with easy sifting sounds.
She rocked.
That was how winter came that year.
Cormac McCarthy - The Orchard Keeper
16th January, 2006
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible.
Don't hoard it.
Don't dole it out like a miser.
Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
Brendan Behan - suggested by Barney Bardsley
29th January, 2006
I've learnt so much from my mistakes...
I think I'll make another.
Christine Buckley
4th February, 2006
Can Jack and Jill
terrified that each and the other are not terrified become
terrified that each and other are terrified, and
eventually,
not terrified that each and other not be terrified?
RD Laing - suggested by Chris Reason
12th February, 2006
Brainwash yourself before somebody nasty beats you to it.
Rob Brezsny - suggested by Barney Bardsley
21st February, 2006
Full Moon and Little Frieda
A cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket -
And you listening.
A spider's web, tense for the dew's touch.
A pail lifted, still and brimming - mirror
To tempt a first star to a tremor.
Cows are going home in the lane there, looping the hedges with their warm
wreaths of breath -
A dark river of blood, many boulders,
Balancing unspilled milk.
'Moon!' you cry suddenly, 'Moon! Moon!'
The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work
That points at him amazed.
Ted Hughes
28th February, 2006
EVERYBODY lies
ALL the time.
Stephen Poliakoff
12th March, 2006
....and may you grow strong
to break
all webs of my weaving.
Evangeline Paterson - A Wish for my Children
14th March, 2006
True happiness is knowing you're a hypocrite.
Ivor Cutler - 1923 to 2006 - RIP
26th March, 2006
No one is better at doing what you do than you.
Also, no one is worse at it.
Mick Goodrick - suggested by Dan Wilde
5th April, 2006
If you can't be a good example,
you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Catherine - suggested by Janet Travers
13th April, 2006
I daydream of Chile -
a place I never want to visit.
Dylan Thomas
24th April, 2006
Where is your enough?
Phra Kru Santi Nontakun - Suggested by James Turner
3rd May, 2006
Stumble into grace.
Emmylou Harris album title.
8th May, 2006
BOY TRAPPED IN OWN BODY
Local newspaper hoarding
16th May, 2006
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today...
James Dean - Suggested by James Turner
24th May, 2006
Almost anything you do will be insignificant,
but it's very important that you do it.
Gandhi
29th June, 2006
In a combat between wisdom and feeling
wisdom never wins.
Merlin - Mort d'Artur
14th July, 2006
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything...
That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
8th August, 2006
Rebus : You're either with me or against me. That's my philosophy.
D.S.Templar : That's a shit philosophy.
Ian Rankin
21st September, 2006
Ever tried.
Ever failed.
No matter.
Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better.
Samuel Beckett - thanks (again) for suggestion to Barney Bardsley
15th October, 2006
People are scared of getting close to what they need.
Mike Gilpin
1st November, 2006
There is a place between right and wrong;
I will meet you there.
Runi
15th November, 2006
Change, change, change.
All this talk about change.
Don't they realise it's bad enough already.
24th November, 2006
I have to be satisfied with the ending even though my editor might say,
"This book ends awfully abruptly."
And then I say, "But it’s over."
Elmore Leonard
5th December, 2006
Life moves pretty fast.
If you don't stop and look around you once in a while....
You could miss it.
Ferris Bueller
20th December, 2006
Captain Reno : Why did you come to Casablanca?
Rick : I came for the waters.
Captain Reno : But there are no waters here. We're in the middle of the desert.
Rick : I was misinformed.
Casablanca
2nd January, 2007
You arrive with nothing;
And you leave with nothing.
So what have you got to loose?
Nothing!
The Life of Brian
12th January, 2007
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The Second Coming - W.B.Yeats
19th January, 2007
Modern medicine has a lousy record of dealing with the back;
We spend too much time on the front.
Dr Julius Hibbert talking to Homer Simpson - suggested by Lucy Bain
27th January, 2007
Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably.
The lesson is, never try.
Homer Simpson
6th February, 2007
Man's best friend outside of a horse or a dog is a book.
Inside a horse or a dog, it's too dark to read anyway!
Confucius - suggested by Tony Green
2nd March, 2007
Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.
Sarah Williams "The Old Astronomer to his Pupil"
21st March, 2007
You don't stop laughing because you grow old.
You grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard
31st March, 2007
Give me a space where I can breathe,
a space where I can live my dreams.
A place where no-one will ever say
how I should live my life if their way.
Found on a web forum
14th April, 2007
I always think that bungee jumping is suicide for the un-committed.
Jimmy Carr
27th April, 2007
He had taught her what she needed
But forgotten it himself.
Sean Manning
20th May, 2007
In Japan apprentice suchi cooks spend three years
just watching the suchi master prepare suchi.
When the apprentice finally prepares his first suchi,
he does a good job of it.
Temple Grandin (Animals in Translation)
26th June, 2007
Get the head right and the rest will follow.
Heineken Beer advert.
10th July, 2007
Cardinal Richelieu, first minister to Louis XIII of France
had a sister who thought she had a glass bottom.
She refused to sit on it in case it shattered.
Metro Factfile
21st August, 2007
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts,
than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi
7th September, 2007
Forgive the selfishness of the old man
Who claims the past for his own.
Anon
27th September, 2007
"And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?"
"I did."
"And what did you want?"
"To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth."
Raymomd Carver/Last Fragment - thanks to Barney Bardsley for sending me this.
23rd October, 2007
You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
John Irving
16th November, 2007
I'm sorry pretty baby
but I always take the long way home.
Tom Waits
4th December, 2007
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just
didn't know he was a novelist.
All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
John Irving
29th December, 2007
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life
or whether that station will be held by anybody else,
these pages must show.
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
15th January, 2008
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful,
but the demand is falling.Lech Walenska
Lech Walenska - suggested by James Turner
27th January, 2008
Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre
9th February, 2008
All the troubles of men are caused by one single thing,
which is their inability to stay quietly in a room.
Blaise Pascal
20th February, 2008
You can't make someone love you.
All you can do is stalk them and hope that they will eventually give in.
Arthur Smith
12th March, 2008
Ignorance is as constructed as knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
24th March, 2008
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
Banksy
9th April, 2008
Whoever needs to sing
will find a song.
Swedish proverb
16th April, 2008
The future's bright;
The future's orange.
Alfons Mucha - 1892
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