The Hostage Brendan Behan Quotes

#1. Yet why must grammar be like a prison for the mind? Might not language be as a closet full of gowns? Of a generally similar cut, with a hole for the head and neck to pass, but filled with difference and a variety of trimmings so that we don't grow bored?

Danielle Dutton

#2. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

Bertrand Russell

#3. This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

Tilden Edwards

#4. I didn't want to think about the fact that she could smell me, or that she just joked about eating me. At least I hoped she meant it as a joke.

Lish McBride

#5. We Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

Gene Tierney

#6. If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

Barbara Greene

#7. Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

Charles Albert Gobat

#8. We have a very narrow view of what is going on.

Daniel Kahneman

#9. Bin Laden was very keen to point out to me that his forces had fought the Americans in Somalia. He also wanted to talk about how many mullahs in Pakistan were putting up posters saying, "We follow bin Laden." He even produced a sort of Kodak set of snapshots of graffiti supporting him.

Robert Fisk

#10. An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

A.M. Jenkins

#11. I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

Ritchie Blackmore

#12. What are you two talking about?" Gladys asked.
"We're talkin' about roses, chicken chips, and pork rinds," he said.

Carolyn Brown