Undercurrents Radio Quotes

#1. A married couple never seem so married as when viewed from the back seat of a motor car, talking quietly together in the front. Polly and Marcus might have been in their bedroom already, so soft and intimate their converse sounded to me, as I sat there alertly mute behind the backs of their heads

John Banville

#2. Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

George Henry Lewes

#4. Who shot at you? Nick asked, taking in the stunned expressions on his staffers' faces. Why couldn't he have fallen for an accountant?

Marie Force

#5. But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.

Dabney Coleman

#6. I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

Henry Miller

#7. making judgments under the pressure of a crisis, about weighing the relative merits of various choices with potentially catastrophic outcomes.

Timothy F. Geithner

#8. The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.

Barbara Tuchman

#9. In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.

Robert Casey

#10. I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

Les Brown

#11. If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different connection and it will be a very different experience.

Graciela Iturbide

#12. Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

Rose Macaulay