"...when you get your non-orgasmic personality back."
From '101 Rent Boys'.
17.02.01
"Happiness is a choice like everything else."
Dolly Parton
17.02.01
"Like looking for a needle in a gaystack!"
('Will and Grace' Channel 4)
11.11.01
"The Egytpians wrote the Kings news on the underside of carved stone scarab beetles, and distributed them through the country.
These 'News Beetles' were the first mass medium, distributed widely to the population.
Amenhotek III died in 1352 bc. His son, Amenhotek IV renamed himself Akhenaten, and fathered Tutenkhamen.
BBC 2
11.11.01
(the work) explores the point at which repetition becomes expression.
4Dance. Channel 4
26.01.02
I think all men are gay, it's just that for most of them it's platonic.
Ruby Wax.
28.01.02
"I am the anarchy of lust."
Star Trek:The Next Generation.
"Scepticism is the sadism of the disillusioned."
26.07.02.Don't know who it came from though!
"The exoticism of shitting donkeys."
Alain de Botton. 'The Art of Travel.'
31.08.02
"I've got the sort of face that mothers love and dogs lick."
Channel4, 22.08.02
"Perhaps because unhappines can stem from having only one perspective to play with."
Alain de Botton. 'The Art of Travel.'(p150)
31.08.02
"The torrent of time swept beneath their feet as they perched uncertainly on the smooth unstable pebbles of their thoughts."
Marinetti. 'The Futurist Cookbook.'
"Suddenly a sculptural complex of chocolate and nougat, representing the Forms of Nostalgia and the Past collapsed
with a crash, spattering everything with sticky dark liquid."
Marinetti. 'The Futurist Cookbook.'
"You're cursed when you recognise true things, because you can't act with the full confidence of dumbness any more."
quote from a book being reviewed.'Late Review'. BBC2 24.01.03
"Nothing is as dreadful as it seems."
Sign on the wall of Mole's house in the film of 'Wind in the Willows'. 7.08.03
"I mean most people have many faces. Jerry had one. Don Juan says anyone who always looks the same person isn't a person. He is a person impersonator."
William Burroughs. 'Cities of the red night.'
"The search for the truth is, in most cases, simply a way of avoiding responsibility for the imagination."
'A personal History of Ongar.'
"Only justice will liberate us from terrorism."
Prime Minister of Spain, immediately after the Madrid bombings (4 simultaneous bombs on stations and trains, more than 199 killed). 11.03.09
"When the weather does get a bit mucky we can amuse ourselves telling jokes, eating meat pies and scraping the muck off the engine."
Fred Dibnah. 'Dig with Dibnah' (his coal mine) BBC2 1.04.04
"We're all sheep, and it's time for some of us to baa a bit more!"
David Hockney speaking out in favour of smoking. 2.06.04
"Listen up guys, just because it's art doesn't mean you have to look like someone's just run over your cat!"
TV Quick review of 'The culture show'. 10.02.05
"A gathering of the young, and the asymetric of hair."
The Culture Show.
14.10.06
Headline in the 'West Briton':
"Woman hurt in fatal accident".
7.09.06