Antony Jay famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

  • Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

  • I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.

  • Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

  • The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.

  • I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

  • The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.

  • Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

  • Independence didn't have to be exile.

  • In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.