Philip Hensher Quotes

#1. It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on.

Philip Hensher

#2. The more I love, the more I see the magic of love.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I lost my head for a little while.

John Mayer

#4. 150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

Jim Carrey

#5. At home we watch DVDs and love our many animals.

Melissa Satta

#6. My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.

William Shakespeare

#7. The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking.

Alcee Hastings

#8. Joy is sacred blessing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. If you don't say anything it can't become important, but if you say it everyone's ever after got to walk round it like a pile of rocks in the living room.

Philip Hensher

#10. Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.

Ben Zobrist

#11. Simply giving something 'a shot' is not giving something our 'best,' for our best is made up of as many 'shots' as it takes in order to be our best.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. Something very unusual, a chocolate-flavoured log of goats' cheese. "Made by lesbians in Wales," Sam had explained superfluously.

Philip Hensher

#13. Depressing realization sets in. Writing was invented not by human beings but by accountants. Most of the early writing systems are records of how much crap people own, how much money they have, how much money they owe, and other lowering/boastful facts of human life.

Philip Hensher

#14. I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.

Philip Hensher

#15. I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I've never seen on television. I don't look at our show as a basketball show. I look at our show as a sports and entertainment show.

Kenny Smith

#16. Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.

John Wayne

#17. Previously, gay life had seemed a merry series of cabinet reshuffles and rearrangements, in which everyone was single for a time, then paired off for a time. If you stood still with a welcoming smile on your face, sooner or later somebody would come over and sit on it.

Philip Hensher

#18. Every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

John Irving

#19. Mine's going to be the best book tour that ever happened!

Ronda Rousey

#20. Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a Negro in the house of our Heavenly Father.

Roger B. Taney

#21. Why do we say 'the cockles of your heart'?" David said. "Nothing to do with whelks, I suppose.

Philip Hensher

#22. Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care ... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right?

Bisco Hatori

#23. It's material deprivation that starts all this off."
"They've got dishwashers, Miranda," Billa said. "They're not examples of material deprivation.

Philip Hensher