“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda
“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda
“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
Interviewer: Many people who come to your concerts here regard it as a kind of pilgrimage. Most would like to meet you. What do you feel you have to offer your fans on this kind of individual level?
Bob Dylan: In India they have men that live in the Himalayas and people make long journeys to sit at their feet. And what happens when they sit at their feet? Nothing. Nothing happens; they’re usually given a big dose of silence. Sometimes it’s better to be quiet than to make a lot of noise; because when you’re quiet you’re usually more in tune with the birds and the bees and the phantoms of life.
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin
“In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.”
― Jane Goodall
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
― Emily Dickinson
As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.
Frankie Boyle
“America, why are your libraries full of tears?”
― Allen Ginsberg
"I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop."
-- Noël Coward
The terrible thing about dying over in Ireland is you miss your own wake. It's the best day of your life.
You've paid for everything and you can't join in. Mind you if you did you'd be drinking on your own.
Dave Allen.
@eurocelticyankee,
I’m not Irish, but I told my wife to have a big party with our family and friends instead of a funeral. I want to be cremated and my ashes dispursed in the Pacific Ocean, so I can continue my travels.
“Laughter is poison to fear.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." -Joseph Chilton Pearce
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
The English language doesn't suit my soul. sometimes I think the English language
is like a brick wall between you and me and the word ''****'' is my chisel.
- Tommy Tiernan.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
- Arlo Guthrie
“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."
[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]”
― Junot Diaz
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Rev 12:12
Th-th-th-th That's all Folks!
P. Pig.
