Whalefur Quotes

#1. The people who demand that the oracle predict for them really want to know next year's price on whalefur or something equally mundane. None of them wants an instant-by-instant prediction of his personal life.

Frank Herbert

#2. And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

#3. The curse of cancer created a strange and strained existence, challenging me to be neither blind to, nor bound by, death's approach. Even when the cancer was in retreat, it cast long shadows. When

Paul Kalanithi

#4. Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.

Margo Kingston

#5. I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

Guy Ritchie

#6. You are the only miracle that I have no doubt.

M.F. Moonzajer

#7. Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#8. My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#9. There may well be a scientific paper to be written on why walking in an art gallery is so much more exhausting than, say, climbing Helvellyn. My guess is that it is something to do with the energy required to hold muscles in tension, combined with the mental exertion of wondering what to say.

David Nicholls