Selsdon Quotes

#1. Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

Harold Wilson

#2. Pull your britches up and come on. Don't ever say nothing about country folk, those are my kinda people. I'll have to get on ya like a sprayed roach; crazy, mad, and no place to go.

Christina Mobley

#3. These guys are not from the Iraqi army, ... These are not Iraqi soldiers. They are not members of any of the Iraqi armed forces.

Al Capone

#4. For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

Miguel

#5. to cite Montaigne, "Nature always gives us happier laws than those we give ourselves."125

Mark Helprin

#6. Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

Diane Ackerman

#7. Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]

Terry Pratchett