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“I want in all cases to do right.”
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“Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.”
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“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”
Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”
Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
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“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”
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“Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.”
Source : "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar". Book by Marshall Brown, 1899.
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“Whatever you do today you've got to sleep with tonight.”
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“It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.”
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“Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.”