Victor Gollancz Quotes

#1. I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was clear and good and each moment was full of promise.

Charles Bukowski

#2. I'd never actually talked to a deaf person before but I'd been swimming and gotten water stuck in my ears lots of times, felt that underwater silence as I shook my head and watched people's mouths moving without hearing the words, so I knew what it was like for her. I could empathize.

Paul Neilan

#3. Why do I hate her so much? Why do I care, in any way, what went on in her head?

Margaret Atwood

#4. Whereas in 2010 obesity and related illnesses killed about 3 million people, terrorists killed a total of 7,697 people across the globe,

Yuval Noah Harari

#5. The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

Victor Gollancz

#6. Every three or four years, I'm hot again.

Peter O'Toole

#7. A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated.

Steve Erickson

#8. I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

Victor Gollancz