"England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world. Despite our belief [that] we are a 'gentle' people we have, in reality, a cruel and callous streak in our sweet natures, reinforced by a decadent puritan strain which makes some of us believe that suffering, whether useful or not, is a fit scourge to the wanton soul."

Source : "Out of the way: later essays".

Colin MacInnes

#Football Quotes #Baby Quotes #Sweet Quotes

“No no no no no. RIP Phillip Hughes.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 27, 2014
“Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'cause it's hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot of different takes.”
“I'm happy that now we reveal something about the true Israel, because, you know, now it's Purim, when all the Jews putting mask. And once, we used to have a liberal mask. The most famous mask now in Israel is the mask of a soldier who murdered in cold blood a wounded prisoner of war. Those are the mask that most of the Israeli kids now are using. So, now, when the mask and the true is the same, maybe it's time for Democrats here to stop supporting Israel, if they care about Jews.”
“We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.”
“Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.”

Source : "Bobby Moynihan,‘Monsters University’ Star, On Working With Pixar & Chris Christie" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2013.
“I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.”

Source : "Remixing Philip Glass". Interview with Zachary Woolfe, www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2012.
“I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.”
“The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.”

Source : "Fact-Checking Liu Xiaobo Critics" by Emily Loftis and Jean Lee, www.motherjones.com. December 22, 2010.

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