Colin Dexter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.
-- Colin Dexter

#Imagination #Helping #Drink
There's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse
-- Colin Dexter

#Chiefs
Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.
-- Colin Dexter

#Nice #Paper #Body
I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.
-- Colin Dexter

#Home #Writing #Trying
I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up. The business of getting going, getting started, is enormously important, and this can be physical. Solvitur Ambulando as the Romans used to say, which means the solution comes through walking.
-- Colin Dexter

#Mean #Writing #Thinking
For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.
-- Colin Dexter

#Done #Pieces #Half
We read so much about incompetence and corruption in all sorts of places. I'm not just thinking of the United Kingdom and the United States. Almost everywhere there seems to me to be an increase in incompetence and general dishonesty. This is what I mean about democracy - you feel that you've got the ability to arrange things and influence matters and it's not quite so easy as that, I'm afraid.
-- Colin Dexter

#Mean #Thinking #Democracy
I've not much faith in the future of the planet and I'm not just thinking about Mr. Bush or global warming. I feel that we've lost our way and it looks as if, in so many fields, things are turning sour. Even democracy is turning sour, isn't it?
-- Colin Dexter

#Thinking #Democracy #Looks
There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India until recently, and China. So many of them have been brought to our notice by television that we've almost become inured to cruelty and disasters and hopelessness in the world. We don't seem to have made an awfully good job of running things as a sort of planetary cabinet.
-- Colin Dexter

#Running #Jobs #Tragedy

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.
I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.
I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.
I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!
Nothing is stronger than gentleness.
Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours.

Colin Dexter famous quotes

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