Philippa Pearce Quotes

#1. Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.

Sammy Hagar

#2. Like a lot of kids, you kind of think baseball's boring - that's the perception.

Tony Gwynn

#3. You're very old, aren't you?"
"Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Philippa Pearce

#4. The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

John Denham

#5. At the moment when anyone begins to take philosophy seriously, all the world believes the opposite."
- Human, All Too Human, "Assorted Opinions and Maxims,

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir ... I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners.

Sukarno

#7. Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.

Janny Wurts

#8. A habit of solitude in early childhood is not easily broken. Indeed, it may prove lifelong.

Philippa Pearce

#9. Nothing stands still, except in our memory.

Philippa Pearce

#10. He reached up and out with both arms to shoot his cuffs, and for an instant he might have served to illustrate the crucial step in a manual on the seizing of days. He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over again.

Michael Chabon

#11. I guess they'll find out that freedom doesn't keep you warm,

Lauren Oliver

#12. A good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.

Philippa Pearce

#13. There's something that people misunderstand about screen quotas. It's not about rejecting or hating other countries' films, but about protecting our domestic film industry.

Min-sik Choi