Top 36 Sillitoe Quotes
#1. It's a treat, being a long-distance runner, out in the world by yourself . . . - Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
John L. Parker Jr.
#3. The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.
William S. Burroughs
#4. Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.
Alan Sillitoe
#6. Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.
Alan Sillitoe
#7. You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.
Alan Sillitoe
#9. Items that have become part of me, foliage that has grown to conceal the bare stem of my real personality, what I was like before I ever saw these books, or any book at all, come to that.
Alan Sillitoe
#10. When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
Taylor Swift
#11. A heavy gas generated by the fermentation of equally dense ideas, stupidity is the most common renewable source of energy, the easiest to extract, and the least costly, except when coupled with nuclear energy.
Stephane Mot
#12. You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.
Alan Sillitoe
#13. I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.
Alan Sillitoe
#14. You'll be happy to know that the universal law that created miracles hasn't been repealed.
Wayne Dyer
#15. All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.
Alan Sillitoe
#16. As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.
Trinny Woodall
#17. Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.
Alan Sillitoe
#18. I was neither glad nor unhappy to see her, but maybe that's what shock does, because I was surprised, that I will say.
Alan Sillitoe
#19. He'd never had much to do with the police in the Nottinghamshire village where he lived. They existed at a distance, as it were, and Joshua's life hadn't led him closer than that. By accident his actions had been law-abiding.
Alan Sillitoe
#20. To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.
Alan Sillitoe
#22. I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.
Martin Henderson
#23. Gulls, aeroplaning above the chimney pots, were calling that he must talk to Laura about his plans. He needed no telling, for once in tune to their outlandish cries.
Alan Sillitoe
#24. Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
Alec Guinness
#25. I am none if not a shadow, and I am all if not a person. I am true, I am real, I am humble, I am dark.
And I don't give one damn whether I'm going to go back in that place of hell.
Max Sillitoe
#26. The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
Alan Sillitoe
#27. Hope to the very end, he told himself, even when you've slipped into the fires of Hell and the flames are searing your guts.
Alan Sillitoe
#28. What was it Like?"
"What was what like?" he said, although he knew.
"Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something. A split second of vanishing awareness. A grasping at a shrinking light."
"It was like being fucked in the brain.
Max Barry
#29. We know you weren't in the house', he said, starting up again, cranking himself with the handle. They always say 'We', 'We', never 'I' 'I' - as if they feel braver and righter knowing there's a lot of them against only one.
Alan Sillitoe
#30. He doesn't love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn't know any better. When I trusted everyone. I'm not that person any more. He's just a boy. He was the first to really hurt me, but he's just a boy. There were a lot of them.
Sarah Dessen
#31. By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester W. Nimitz
#32. The long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself
Alan Sillitoe
#33. Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#34. Walk on your own yellow brick road. If you can't find one, spray paint your way into happiness. If that doesn't work, buy yellow shoes.
Sadiqua Hamdan
#35. I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.
Alan Sillitoe
#36. Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
Alan Sillitoe
