David Mellor Quotes

#1. Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

Dale Carnegie

#2. You do know what's coming up when you're translating. I suppose the concentration, then, is on finding a formulation which is speakable and in character - and economical as well, actually.

Tom Stoppard

#3. I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.

David Attenborough

#4. Every age has its own collective neurosis, and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it.

Viktor E. Frankl

#5. The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.

David Mellor

#6. The room inside looked like the mouth of an alligator - gaped wide open to swallow something down.

Zora Neale Hurston

#7. You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#8. Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

David Mellor

#9. I want you to meet her. If for any reason you suspect anything strange about her ---"
Hilde laughed. "I'll let you know if she tries to kill me.

B. J. Daniels

#10. A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Every good thing you find, no matter how small, is a penny for you to put in your pocket. Gather them close, and treasure them. Someday you'll have a future where you feel rich enough, emotionally, to spend them freely.

Seanan McGuire

#12. I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

Brian Wilson

#13. Love is easy early on...it's when feelings ebb and flow and the busyness of life creeps in that real love shines through in small conscious choices.

Steve Knox

#14. Hope can make people do terrible things.

Tahereh Mafi