Philip Ridley Quotes

#1. When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.

Philip Ridley

#2. My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

Patricia McConnell

#3. No one has the ability to laugh at their misfortunes like the women of the East End.

Philip Ridley

#4. Pity," he said, smiling. "I'd heard about you, but I had no idea just how beautiful ...

Latrivia S. Nelson

#5. We're like . . . like dinosaurs bedazzled by all the pretty lights in the sky, too fucking stupid to realise it's a comet getting closer and closer.

Philip Ridley

#6. Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.

Philip Ridley

#7. How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#8. I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

Wole Soyinka

#9. I love you so much I could burst into flames.

Philip Ridley

#10. We live our lives between magic and panic.

Philip Ridley

#11. I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off.

Shawn Johnson

#12. When the Devil gets bored he tells stories to his bats and these bats fly to us and give us these stories as nightmares.

Philip Ridley

#13. The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became the name I was called.

Philip Ridley

#14. Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.

Heston Blumenthal

#15. I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

Florence Nightingale

#16. We're all as bad as each other. All hungry little cannibals at our own cannibal party. So fuck the milk of human kindness and welcome to the abattoir!

Philip Ridley

#17. All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

Mason Cooley

#18. The beasts would not think it hard if I told them to walk on their heads. It would become their delight to walk on their heads. I am His beast, and all His biddings are joys.

C.S. Lewis

#19. Every moment that's ever been, or ever will be, is gone the instant it's begun. So life is loss. And the secret of happiness is to learn to love the moment more than you mourn the loss.

Dan Baker

#20. When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.

E. M. Forster

#21. Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!

Emily Mortimer

#22. I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Robert B. Parker

#23. Slit my skull open. Know what it'll be like? Like slitting open the guts of a great white shark. Stuff'll come out like you wouldn't fucking believe.

Philip Ridley