My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man. . . not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King & a Kingdom
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don't think it was decided at that meeting. The trouble is, as soon as you've chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of. It's like going to a place that you've never been to before - you've got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!
I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.
A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for - rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires. A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable. . The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.
Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that. . . might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody's knee and purred.
The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.