Alan Judd famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I hear better with a pen in my hand.
-- Alan Judd

#Hands #Pens
Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.
-- Alan Judd

#Art #Real #Imagination
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsÂ—but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.
-- Alan Judd

#Dream #Art #Philosophy
Too much philosophy makes men mad.
-- Alan Judd

#Philosophy #Men #Mad

Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.
In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
Actions are destiny's pen.
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.
I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

Alan Judd famous quotes

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