Via Pullman Quotes

#1. Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.

Philip Pullman

#2. Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Philip Pullman

#3. Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

Philip Pullman

#4. Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries.

Philip Pullman

#5. He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

Philip Pullman

#6. Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

Philip Pullman

#7. In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.

Owen Wister

#8. Anyone who doesn't laugh has something on their conscience, you can be sure of that.
- from: 'The Twelve Brothers

Philip Pullman

#9. Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

Bill Pullman

#10. Mrs. George Widener was met not by automobile but by a special train - consisting of a private Pullman, another car for ballast, and a locomotive.

Walter Lord

#11. We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Philip Pullman

#12. There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Bill Pullman

#13. Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

Philip Pullman

#14. Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents
they were so upset and reproachful ... I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.

Philip Pullman

#15. If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics ... but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.

Philip Pullman

#16. Everything about this is embarrassing" she said. "D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

Philip Pullman

#17. We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.

Philip Pullman

#18. A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.

Philip Pullman

#19. Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Philip Pullman

#20. Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.

Malcolm X

#21. Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?

Philip Pullman

#22. I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

Philip Pullman

#23. I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.

Philip Pullman

#24. We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.

Philip Pullman

#25. Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

Bill Pullman

#26. I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits.

Philip Pullman

#27. Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.
Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

Philip Pullman

#28. For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

Philip Pullman

#29. Princess, princess, youngest daughter,
Open up and let me in!
Or else your promise by the water
Isn't worth a rusty pin.
Keep your promise, royal daughter,
Open up and let me in!

Philip Pullman

#30. A graduate of Oxford University with a degree in

Philip Pullman