Top 37 Quotes About Hislop
#1. You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz
Ian Hislop
#2. No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
Ian Hislop
#3. There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
Ian Hislop
#4. The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
Ian Hislop
#5. You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
Ian Hislop
#6. Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
Ian Hislop
#7. For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
Ian Hislop
#8. This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
Ian Hislop
#9. Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.
Peter Schjeldahl
#10. I've always questioned the way dancers, myself included, must do the same role year in and year out. It's important for me to be able to say to myself, 'O.K., I don't want to be a prince anymore. I want to put on a leather jockstrap and pose.'
David Hallberg
#11. A man with a bad character is liable to be blamed for any misdeed which may be done; while a person who is not open to suspicion may commit depredation without challenge.
Alexander Hislop
#12. My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
Ian Hislop
#13. Two great prayers;
Yahweh, grant me grace for my daily activities.
Yahweh, protect me from all evil, so that my life will be free of pain in Jesus name. Amen!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#14. Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.
Ian Hislop
#15. Being passive doesn't mean being subservient. Her power lay in how well she chose to respond. There was no subservience involved.
Victoria Hislop
#16. I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.
Ana Monnar
#17. I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
Ian Hislop
#18. England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War... I love it.
Ian Hislop
#19. It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
Ian Hislop
#20. I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
Ian Hislop
#21. We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#22. I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
Ian Hislop
#23. I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.
Ian Hislop
#24. I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak
Ian Hislop
#25. My need to be where it is quiet is a real need. The world is way too intense to cope with every day.
Tina J. Richardson
#26. Well, as we were saying when last we met - "
"I don't have to say dick to you without my lawyer."
"Did I ask you to say dick? Peabody, replay the record and verify that I at no time requested that the subject say dick.
J.D. Robb
#27. Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces.
Charles B. Rangel
#28. The sun rose, the moon saturated the night sky with its silver light and the stars blazed, indifferent to the events happening below them.
Victoria Hislop
#29. Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed by the pictures that were missing or never even taken at all, not the ones that had been so carefully framed or packed away neatly in an envelope.
Victoria Hislop
#30. Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown ... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
Anna Freud
#31. I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
Ian Hislop
#32. You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.
Neil Gaiman
#33. They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
Ian Hislop
#34. In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No no, no no, you don't ban it ... you don't buy it.
Ian Hislop
#35. All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
Ian Hislop
#36. You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'
Ian Hislop
#37. I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
Ian Hislop
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