Paul Cornell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.
-- Paul Cornell

#Country #Peace #Hero
He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful. - Tim Latimer
-- Paul Cornell

#Heart #Night #Ice
Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant.
-- Paul Cornell

#People #Rude #Understood
He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret!
-- Paul Cornell

#Done #Caves #Silent
The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not materialised. The world, and himself, remained so far from what they should be: so imperfect.
-- Paul Cornell

#Girl #World #Lines
John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism. Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.
-- Paul Cornell

#Thinking #Might #Too Much
When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.
-- Paul Cornell

#America #Media #Way
It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.
-- Paul Cornell

#Share
To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the planets, you need to pass through at least Poland, Prussia, and Turkey, and you'd probably get stamps in your passport from a few of the other great powers. Then as you get closer to the world, you arrive at a point, in the continually shifting carriage space over the countries, where this complexity has to give way or fail. And so you arrive in the blissful lubrication of neutral orbital territory.
-- Paul Cornell

#Country #Years #Turkeys
But the Fear (that sensation that all writers get of how the hell do words get from my puny little brain to into a book, and isn't magic somehow involved, and surely I'm not qualified to be involved in any part of that process, and I somehow managed that tomorrow, but you mean I have to do it this morning too, well how do I even start?) withdraws quite a bit when it's already light and lovely outside when I get to my desk. So I got right past that big moment today, and into the fun slide down towards the ending, yelling whee.
-- Paul Cornell

#Morning #Fun #Book
Distance is always helpful, and the fact that I'm a U.S. politics junkie helps a lot.
-- Paul Cornell

#Distance #Helping #Helpful
I don't think [Russell T Davies] sits up at night worrying about canonicity, except for the times when I'm pretty sure he does.
-- Paul Cornell

#Night #Thinking #Worry

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