‘I’ll not be vain or conceited anymore. People will think much less of me but that can’t be helped.’ But the funny thing was that everyone thought much more of Clickety Clack when he became humble and modest. They liked him very much, and often had happy evenings with him in his little toadstool cottage.’
Clickety Clack from Round The Clock Stories – Enid Blyton
‘It looks like the most passive activity known to man; people who give ‘reading’ as their hobby qualify themselves as automatic wallflowers. Yet reading has rocked more worlds, turned more heads, changed more lives than sex, drugs and Nintendo put together.’
‘Don’t burn your bridges. Flame-throw your bridges. Absolutely completely destroy them. Because then, the only way forwards is to go for your dreams.’
‘With their capacity for aggresssion strait-jacketed within a too narrow morality, those who are only or merely compassionate and self sacrificing (and naive and exploitable) cannot call forth the genuinely righteous and appropiately self protective anger necessary to protect themselves.’
‘Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using.’
‘Too many tweets make a twat.’
‘How extraordinary. I have known Prince Philip all these years. I did not know he had a guilty secret. He likes poetry. Poor man. How dreadful.’
-The Queen Mother discovering that Prince Philip likes poetry. From Backstairs Billy: The life Of William Tallon by Tom Quinn
‘What is done in love, is done well.’
-Vincent Van Gogh
‘Unhappiness is never forever.’
-A Sortofbiography – Eric Idle
‘Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.’
Things In My Head 