Lanchester Quotes

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.

She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

Stuff is not enough.

of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.

It’s as if people used the invention

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.

Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.

Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love-is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn't even bother to respond.