There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.

Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.

What can art really do in the face of atrocity?

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

I don't like to have time on my wall; it's too-in-your-face.

It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings" -Tessa gray

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?

Women alone always order sole. It means something.

This goodbye will only seem Like an eternal pain If I fail to merely miss you Until we meet again As we assuredly will I've made my mind up

Jesus wants us to love Him in a way that gives Him full leadership over our lives.

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.

I'm obviously first and foremost a British filmmaker on a global scale, but when it comes to narrowing it down, I really feel like my voice is in the Midlands and outside of London.