Al Murray Quotes

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.

She had been married so often she bought a drip-dry wedding dress.

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Knowing that pain and conflict is just change trying to happen, that there is something beautiful on the other side, that it is just a cycle is helpful. Humor is always essential.

Everyone's doing the best they can with the tools they were given.

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

I enjoy watching children interact with the world, the way they engage their environment without any filters, learned models, or cynicism.

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

My anarchism is frankly anarcho-communalism, and it's eco-anarchism as well. And it's not oriented toward the proletariat.

My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect.

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

The fitter you are, the more energy you have.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market.

Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.

I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem.

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher.

Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth.

The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation.

Never frown even when ur sad, coz u never know whose falling in love with ur smile!

The leader's role is to make sure that strategy is kept super simple.

The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used for birthday parties and for things like booster sales.

A glance at Christ will save, but it is the gazing at Christ that sanctifies.

In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Saviour is away.

The moment we definitely commit ourselves, Providence moves, too.

Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?

Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair was murdered. Jon Murray and Robin Murray-O'Hair were also murdered by individuals involved with the atheist organization.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.