A.A. Gill Quotes

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.

I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside...that's why I've never had a job.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.

There ain't no future in the past.

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

I think central to what we do is thinking about what's our role, how does this idea of being a band and getting on the stage and playing stuff.

In my experience as a record producer, the people who most get involved are the people from independent labels who feel they have more to do with it; it's their "baby" kind of thing.

Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.

Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.

The next battle being fought by e-commerce companies will be for customer loyalty.

I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

I don't want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

You kind of figure out what you're doing as you go along.

I think initially the impetus for doing stuff yourself comes from your love of other music.

We need practice solving problems.

It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.