The Oxford dictionary of modern quotations (59 page)

12.79 Konrad Lorenz =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1903-1989

�berhaupt ist es f�r den Forscher ein guter Morgensport, t�glich vor dem

Fr�hst�ck eine Lieblingshypothese einzustampfen--das erh�lt jung.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet

hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Das sogennante B�se(The So-Called Evil, 1963; translated 1966 by Marjorie

Latzke as On Aggression) ch. 2

12.80 Joe Louis =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1914-1981

He [Billy Conn] can run, but he can't hide.

In New York Herald Tribune 9 June 1946

12.81 Terry Lovelock =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Heineken refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach.

Slogan for Heineken lager, 1975 onwards, in Nigel Rees Slogans (1982) p.

16

12.82 Robert Loveman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1864-1923

It isn't raining rain to me,

It's raining violets.

Gates of Silence (1903) "Song" (words adapted by Buddy De Sylva in 1921

song April Showers ; music by Louis Silver)

12.83 David Low =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1891-1963

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini

were, according to themselves.

New York Times Magazine 10 Feb. 1946

12.84 Amy Lowell =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1874-1925

And the softness of my body will be guarded by embrace

By each button, hook, and lace.

For the man who should loose me is dead,

Fighting with the Duke in Flanders,

In a pattern called a war.

Christ! What are patterns for?

Men, Women and Ghosts (1916) "Patterns"

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment

with him tonight in Samarra.

Sheppy (1933) act 3

All books are either dreams or swords,

You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914) title poem

12.85 Robert Lowell =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1917-1977

We feel the machine slipping from our hands

As if someone else were steering;

If we see light at the end of the tunnel,

It's the light of the oncoming train.

Day by Day (1977) "Since 1939." Cf. Paul Dickson

My eyes have seen what my hand did.

The Dolphin (1973) "Dolphin"

The aquarium is gone.

Everywhere,

giant finned cars nose forward like fish;

a savage servility

slides by on grease.

For the Union Dead (1964) title poem

These are the tranquillized Fifties,

and I am forty. Ought I to regret my seed-time?

I was a fire-breathing Catholic C.O.,

and made my manic statement,

telling off the state and president, and then

sat waiting sentence in the bull pen

beside a Negro boy with curlicues

of marijuana in his hair.

Life Studies (1956) "Memories of West Street and Lepke"

I saw the spiders marching through the air,

Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day

In latter August when the hay

Came creaking to the barn.

Poems 1938-1949 (1950) "Mr Edwards and the Spider"

This is death.

To die and know it. This is the Black Widow, death.

Poems 1938-1949 (1950) "Mr Edwards and the Spider"

The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.

Poems 1938-1949 (1950) "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket"

12.86 L. S. Lowry =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1887-1976

I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.

In Mervyn Levy Paintings of L. S. Lowry (1975) p. 11

12.87 Malcolm Lowry =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1909-1957

How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.

Under the Volcano (1947) ch. 12

12.88 E. V. Lucas =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1868-1938

Poor G.K.C., his day is past--

Now God will know the truth at last.

Mock epitaph for G. K. Chesterton, in Dudley Barker G. K. Chesterton

(1973) ch. 16

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

Reading, Writing and Remembering (1932) ch. 8

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than

the people who have to wait for them.

365 Days and One More (1926) p. 277

12.89 George Lucas =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1944-

The Empire strikes back.

Title of film (1980)

Then man your ships, and may the force be with you.

Star Wars: from the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (1976) ch. 11

12.90 Clare Booth Luce =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1903-

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us

a brain?

Life 16 Oct. 1970

12.91 Joanna Lumley =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled

at picking shrapnel out of your head.

In Observer 17 Nov. 1985 (comment on the Booker Prize)

12.92 Sir Edwin Lutyens =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1869-1944

I had proposed that we should lunch together at the Garrick Club, because

I had obviously to ask father if he had any serious objection to the

writing or the writer of this essay. But, when I broached the matter, he

merely mumbled in obvious embarrassment: "Oh, my!"--just as his father

was used to do. Then, as the fish was served, he looked at me seriously

over the rims of his two pairs of spectacles and remarked: "The piece of

cod passeth all understanding"!

Robert Lutyens Sir Edwin Lutyens (1942) p. 74

12.93 Rosa Luxemburg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1871-1919

Freiheit ist immer nur Freiheit des anders Denkenden.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks

differently.

Die Russische Revolution (The Russian Revolution, 1918) sec. 4

12.94 Lady Lytton (Pamela Frances Audrey, Countess of Lytton) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1874-1971

The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the

rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

Letter to Sir Edward Marsh, Dec. 1905, in Edward Marsh A Number of People

(1939) ch. 8

13.0 M =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

13.1 Alexander McArthur and H. Kingsley Long =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Battles and sex are the only free diversions in slum life. Couple them

with drink, which costs money, and you have the three principal outlets

for that escape complex which is for ever working in the tenement

dweller's subconscious mind.

No Mean City (1935) ch. 4

13.2 Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Charles MacArthur 1895-1956

Ben Hecht 1894-1964

The son of a bitch stole my watch!

Front Page (1928) last line

13.3 General Douglas MacArthur =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1880-1964

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

Congressional Record 19 Apr. 1951, vol. 97, pt. 3, p. 4125

The President of the United States ordered me to break through the

Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose,

as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan. A

primary purpose of this is relief of the Philippines. I came through and I

shall return.

Statement in Adelaide, 20 Mar. 1942, in New York Times 21 Mar. 1942, p. 1

13.4 Dame Rose Macaulay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1881-1958

"Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this

animal on her return from High Mass.

Towers of Trebizond (1956) p. 9

13.5 General Anthony McAuliffe =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1898-1975

Nuts!

Response to German demand to surrender at Bastogne, Belgium, 22 Dec.

1944, in New York Times 28 Dec. 1944, p. 4, and 30 Dec. 1944, p. 1

13.6 Sir Desmond MacCarthy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1877-1952

A biographer is an artist who is on oath, and anyone who knows anything

about artists, knows that that is almost a contradiction in terms.

Memories (1953) "Lytton Strachey and the Art of Biography"

The whole of art is an appeal to a reality which is not without us but in

our minds.

Theatre (1954) "Diction and Realism"

13.7 Joe McCarthy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

You made me love you,

I didn't want to do it.

You Made Me Love You (1913 song; music by James V. Monaco)

13.8 Joseph McCarthy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1908-1957

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Speech in Wisconsin, 1952, in Richard Rovere Senator Joe McCarthy (1973)

p. 8

13.9 Mary McCarthy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1912-1989

I once said in an interview that every word she [Lillian Hellman] writes

is a lie, including "and" and "the."

New York Times 16 Feb. 1980, p. 12

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the

Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been

Europeans.

On the Contrary (1961) "America the Beautiful"

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe

is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

On the Contrary (1961) "America the Beautiful"

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by

those who have perceived them without noticing. A truth is something that

everyone can be shown to know and to have known, as people say, all along.

On the Contrary (1961) "Vita Activa"

In violence, we forget who we are.

On the Contrary (1961) "Characters in Fiction "

If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you

immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

On the Contrary (1961) "American Realist Playwrights"

13.10 Paul McCartney =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1942-

He [John Lennon] could be a manoeuvring swine, which no one ever realized.

In Hunter Davies The Beatles (1985) p. 469

See also John Lennon (12.38)

13.11 David McCord =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1897-

By and by

God caught his eye.

Bay Window Ballads (1935) "Remainders" (epitaph for a waiter)

13.12 Horace McCoy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1897-1955

They shoot horses don't they.

Title of novel (1935)

13.13 John McCrae =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1872-1918

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

Punch 8 Dec. 1915 "In Flanders Fields"

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow.

Punch 8 Dec. 1915, "In Flanders Fields"

13.14 Carson McCullers =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1917-1967

The heart is a lonely hunter.

Title of novel (1940; taken from The Lonely Hunter (1896), a poem by

"Fiona Macleod" (William Sharp): "My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts

on a lonely hill")

13.15 Derek McCulloch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1897-1967

Goodnight, children...everywhere.

Children's Hour (BBC Radio programme; closing words normally spoken by

"Uncle Mac" in the 1930s and 1940s)

13.16 Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1892-1978

I'll ha'e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur

Extremes meet--it's the only way I ken

To dodge the curst conceit o' bein' richt

That damns the vast majority o' men.

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926) p. 6

He's no a man ava',

And lacks a proper pride,

Gin less than a' the world

Can ser' him for a bride!

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926) p. 36

13.17 Ramsay MacDonald =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1866-1937

Yes, tomorrow every Duchess in London will be wanting to kiss me!

Comment after forming the National Government, 25 Aug. 1931, in Philip

Viscount Snowden Autobiography (1934) vol. 2, p. 957

If God were to come to me and say "Ramsay, would you rather be a country

gentleman than a prime minister?," I should reply, "Please God, a country

gentleman."

In Harold Nicolson Diary 5 Oct. 1930, in Diaries and Letters (1966) p. 57

We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.

In Observer 4 May 1930

13.18 A. G. Macdonell =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1889-

England, their England.

Title of novel (1933)

13.19 John McEnroe =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1959-

You cannot be serious!

Said to tennis umpire at Wimbledon, early 1980 s

This must be the pits.

Comment after disagreement with Wimbledon umpire, in Sun 23 June 1981

13.20 Arthur McEwen =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

d. 1907

"What we're after," said Arthur McEwen, "is the 'gee-whiz' emotion."

Pressed for further explanation, he said: "We run our paper so that when

the reader opens it he says: 'Gee-whiz!' An issue is a failure which

doesn't make him say that."

Colliers 18 Feb. 1911

13.21 Roger McGough =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1937-

Let me die a youngman's death

Not a clean & in-between-

The-sheets, holy-water death,

Not a famous-last-words

Peaceful out-of-breath death.

"Let Me Die a Youngman's Death" in Edward Lucie Smith (ed.) The Liverpool

Scene (1967) p. 47

Girls are simply the prettiest things

My cat and i believe

And we're always saddened

When it's time for them to leave

We watch them titivating

(that often takes a while)

and though they keep us waiting

My cat and i just smile

We like to see them to the door

Say how sad it couldn't last

Then my cat and i go back inside

And talk about the past.

Watchwords (1969) "My Cat and i"

13.22 Sir Ian MacGregor =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1912-

People are now discovering the price of insubordination and insurrection.

And boy, are we going to make it stick!

Comment during the coal-miners' strike, in Sunday Telegraph 10 Mar. 1985

13.23 Jimmy McGregor =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Oh, he's football crazy, he's football mad

And the football it has robbed him o' the wee bit sense he had.

And it would take a dozen skivvies, his clothes to wash and scrub,

Since our Jock became a member of that terrible football club.

Football Crazy (1960 song)

13.24 Dennis McHarrie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

"He died who loved to live," they'll say,

"Unselfishly so we might have today!"

Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;

He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.

In V. Selwyn et al Return to Oasis (1980) pt. 3, p. 172 "Luck"

13.25 Colin MacInnes =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1914-1976

And I thought, "My lord, one thing is certain, and that's that they'll

make musicals one day about the glamour-studded 1950s." And I thought, my

heaven, one thing is certain too, I'm miserable.

Absolute Beginners (1959) p. 81

13.26 Claude McKay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1890-1948

If we must die, let it not be like hogs

Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,

While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,

Making their mock at our accursed lot.

If we must die, O let us nobly die,

So that our precious blood may not be shed

In vain; then even the monsters we defy

Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!

O, kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!

Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,

And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!

What though before us lies the open grave?

Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,

Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Selected Poems (1953) "If We Must Die"

13.27 Sir Compton Mackenzie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1883-1972

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often

find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

Literature in My Time (1933) ch. 22

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp

handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

Vestal Fire (1927) bk. 1, ch. 3

13.28 Joyce McKinney =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1950-

I loved Kirk so much, I would have skied down Mount Everest in the nude

with a carnation up my nose.

Evidence given at Epsom Magistrates' Court, 6 Dec. 1977, in The Times 7

Dec. 1977

13.29 Alexander Maclaren =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1826-1910

"The Church is an anvil which has worn out many hammers," and the story of

the first collision is, in essentials, the story of all.

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Acts of the Apostles (1907) ch. 4

13.30 Alistair Maclean =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1923-1987

Where eagles dare.

Title of novel (1967)

13.31 Archibald MacLeish =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1892-1982

A Poem should be palpable and mute

As a globed fruit

Dumb

As old medallions to the thumb

Silent as the sleeve-worn stone

Of casement ledges where the moss has grown--

A poem should be wordless

As the flight of birds

Streets in the Moon (1926) "Ars Poetica"

A poem should not mean

But be.

Streets in the Moon (1926) "Ars Poetica"

13.32 Irene Rutherford McLeod =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1891-1964

I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone;

I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own;

I'm a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep;

I love to sit and bay at the moon, to keep fat souls from sleep.

Songs to Save a Soul (1915) "Lone Dog"

13.33 Marshall McLuhan =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1911-1980

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a

global village.

Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) p. 31

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy

consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

Mechanical Bride (1951) "The Ballet Luce"

The medium is the message.

Understanding Media (1964) title of ch. 1

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

Understanding Media (1964) p. 32

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain,

unclad and incomplete in the urban compound.

Understanding Media (1964) p. 217

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of

urban and suburban man.

Understanding Media (1964) p. 224

13.34 Ed McMahon =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1923-

And now...heeeeere's Johnny!

Introduction to Johnny Carson on NBC-TV's Tonight show (from 1961; also

used by Jack Nicholson in the 1980 film The Shining)

13.35 Harold Macmillan (Lord Stockton) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1894-1986

He [Aneurin Bevan] enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist

system and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except

that of mute.

In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1962) pt. 1, ch. 5

After a long experience of politics I have never found that there is any

inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

Hansard 11 July 1963, col. 1411

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the

action of two tarts.

Comment on the Profumo affair, July 1963, in Anthony Sampson Macmillan

(1967) p. 243

There ain't gonna be no war.

Said at London press conference, 24 July 1955, after Geneva summit, in

News Chronicle 25 July 1955

He [a Foreign Secretary] is forever poised between a clich� and an

indiscretion.

In Newsweek 30 Apr. 1956

Even before Mr Heath's troubles of 1972 and 1974, Mr Harold Macmillan was

fond of remarking that there were three bodies no sensible man directly

challenged: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the

National Union of Mineworkers.

Alan Watkins in Observer 22 Feb. 1981

The most striking of all the impressions I have formed since I left London

a month ago is of the strength of this African national consciousness. In

different places it takes different forms, but it is happening everywhere.

The wind of change is blowing through this continent, and, whether we like

it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We

must all accept it as a fact, and our national policies must take account

of it.

Speech at Cape Town, 3 Feb. 1960, Pointing the Way (1972) p. 475

Indeed, let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so

good. Go around the country, go to the industrial towns, go to the farms,