Neal Ascherson Quotes

#1. I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.

Neal Ascherson

#2. I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.

Neal Ascherson

#3. The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities

Gilles Deleuze

#4. Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.

Bikram Choudhury

#5. Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

Neal Ascherson

#6. I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.

Neal Ascherson

#7. Even in the worst of times, the Tamils had not expected the Sri Lankan army to shell the sick and dying.

Rohini Mohan

#8. Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

Neal Ascherson

#9. Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.

Neal Ascherson

#10. Most people settle in life with no satisfaction. Winners are satisfied without ever settling.

Orrin Woodward

#11. Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

George Orwell

#12. Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.

Helen Yglesias

#13. When it's all said and done remember, You are only as old as you look.

Mark W. Boyer

#14. The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Thomas Wolfe

#15. Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.

Jay Leno

#16. The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

Albert Schweitzer

#17. The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word
the note
is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.

Neal Ascherson

#18. You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.

Leonard Bernstein

#19. I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see
one has to keep oneself afloat.

Neal Ascherson

#20. On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

Neal Ascherson

#21. Well a lot of females complain about getting into the business, like men producers always wanna get (in bed) with them before, but it wasn't like that for me, I was good from start so I had no problems when it came to recording.

Lady Saw

#22. Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before.

James Newton Howard

#23. For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are ... businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but
ominously
fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

Neal Ascherson