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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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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
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“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”
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“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”
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“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”
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“I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality”
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“Fate has a twisted sense of humor.”
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“I have a very dark sense of humor.”
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“If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.”
Source : Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.14, Penguin
