Prime Minister's Question Time Quotes

#1. But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Ronnie Barker

#2. When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!

Oscar Wilde

#3. My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.

Peace Pilgrim

#4. I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

Anthony Braxton

#5. What they call philosophy I call literature; what they call literature I call journalism; what they call journalism I call gossip; and what they call gossip I call (generously) voyeurism.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#7. With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

Billy Mitchell

#8. Use your good common sense. Is anger useful? If you get angry at someone, the result is good neither for you nor for the other person. Nothing helpful comes of it. In the end, anger does not harm others; it hurts yourself.

Dalai Lama XIV

#9. There is no gift more great than love.

James Branch Cabell

#10. [the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you ugly creature," he said. "I have not used my magic in a long time, and I am very out of practice.

Robin McKinley

#11. Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women.

Haruki Murakami

#12. And let us tranquilize ourselves by making a compact. Next time (with a view to our peace of mind) we'll commit the crime, instead of taking the criminal. You swear it?'
'Certainly.'
'Sworn! Let Tippins look to it. Her life's in danger.

Charles Dickens

#13. Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#14. When you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...

John Geddes