John Humphrys Quotes

#1. Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.

Antonio Damasio

#2. In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

Jesse Jackson

#3. Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

Karrine Steffans

#4. A headsman's sword is no fit end for brave Ser Gregor. We have prayed so long for his death, it is only fair that he pray for it as well.

George R R Martin

#5. life doesn't have any respect for dramatic pauses.

Elliott James

#6. Even though he was a devout Catholic, he came to believe that the life force emerged from the action of the fundamental properties of natural forces in the inorganic world, combining into action to give rise to life.

R. Douglas Fields

#7. It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.

John Humphrys

#8. Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

Stewart Udall

#9. It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

John Humphrys

#10. Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants.

Peter Ackroyd

#11. Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

Mo Willems

#12. In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Franz Kafka

#13. It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

John Humphrys

#14. If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim.

John Humphrys

#15. The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad, it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

John Humphrys

#16. I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again.

DJ Shadow

#17. Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen.

Emil Cioran