Colin Macinnes Quotes

#1. In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

Colin MacInnes

#2. Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

Colin MacInnes

#3. I want to experience the world. How can I be sure if my place on earth is supposed to be here or there, if I have never gone to there? I know all about here, am literally bored shitless with it. What if there, is better?

Simon Williams

#4. The word 'free-lance', I used to think, had a romantic ring; but sadly discovered, when I tried to be one, that its practice has little freedom, and the lance is a sorry weapon to tilt at literary windmills.

Colin MacInnes

#5. But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.

Paul Harvey

#6. Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?

Paul Lynde

#7. I love the way you smile at me ... knocks me on my arse.

Amy Harmon

#8. God has a part for all of us to fulfill and every part is vital".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#9. It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

Colin MacInnes

#10. I saw you thro' a telescope and was so struck by your Charms that from that time to this I have not tasted human food.

Jane Austen