Mackichan's Quotes

#1. History is written by the victors. Legends are woven by the people. Writers fantasize. Only death is certain.

"To Die for One's Country is Glorious," p. 131

Danilo Kis

#2. But big people's illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

Khushwant Singh

#3. I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.

Sally Phillips

#4. When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Madonna Ciccone

#5. There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

Bertrand Russell

#7. Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'

Malorie Blackman

#8. I've had more fan mail from 'Doctor Who' than anything. People love the show so passionately.

Miranda Raison

#9. Believe you can, then go out and create your own universe.

Timothy Pina

#10. Words alone mean nothing, because they can do nothing.

Marty Rubin

#11. Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#12. For though I tried to move his arm - unlock his bridegroom clasp - yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly, as though naught but death should part us twain.

Herman Melville

#13. I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.

Zendaya