David Baddiel Quotes

#1. That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life?

David Baddiel

#2. For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.

David Baddiel

#3. Not even the Germans could ruin the sea.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#4. Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

David Baddiel

#5. In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

Stephen Leacock

#6. She [Cressida] knows it is men's sexual desire that makes women "angels" before they have been able to possess them; once possessed, women are "things" [Troilus and Cressida I.2, 225-28, 233-34].

Tina Packer

#7. It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.

Yasmin Mogahed

#8. Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

Stephen Elliott

#9. The task is not done. The journey is not complete. We can and we must do more.

Martin Luther King III