Porky Pies Quotes

#1. Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.

Laura Mvula

#2. I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Brian Aldiss

#3. When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

Richard Donner

#4. I think music changed when Bruce Springstee came on the scene. I think if it wasn't for Bruce Springstee, music would have gone in a very scary direction. We may have gotten to where disco music ruled - and I would've had to quit.

Jeff Baxter

#5. A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

Louis Nizer

#6. To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God.

Timothy Keller

#7. There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.

Viswanathan Anand

#8. It's so dark," Patton says. "So late." He closes his eyes and falls back to sleep.

Bill O'Reilly

#9. I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

Edward Norton

#10. ...There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obey'd in office. - Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand! Why dost though lash that whore? Strip thine own back; Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind For which thou whipst her. The usurer hangs the cozener.

William Shakespeare

#11. 1 + 1 = 2 is simply an induction from experience. It is in no way logically or arithmetically 'necessary'. It is induced knowledge, on a par with 'All swans are white'.

Paul Strathern