Grumbling Appendix Quotes

#1. I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

Alfredo Kraus

#2. Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in. The skepticism comes from a lack of understanding and the need to defend the status quo and not from actual knowledge of the subject.

David Icke

#3. It is not good to be so much away from one's own people. It is the sort of thing known to make one strange.

Tony D'Souza

#4. The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#5. Forward thinking doesn't just come with age. It comes with practice and experience. That's why some twenty-two-year-olds are incredibly self-possessed, future-oriented people who already know how to face the unknown, while some thirty-four-year-olds still have brains that run the other way.

Meg Jay

#6. I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

Ian McKellen

#7. There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

Edward Hirsch

#8. I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.

Leigh Bardugo

#9. Look, you can't change your past, Ditty, but you've still got your future.

Robyn Bavati

#10. In our terms, you are a baby and I am robbing the cradle.

Nalini Singh

#11. I love you, couch - have I ever told you that? Well, I'm telling you now.

Emma Chase

#12. The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

Antonio Damasio